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Definition of Maieutic
1. a. Serving to assist childbirth.
Definition of Maieutic
1. Adjective. maieutical ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maieutic
1. pertaining to a method of eliciting knowledge [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maieutic
Literary usage of Maieutic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1897)
"No. 1 (Fig. 1) was so thin, that when fixed on FIG. i. Smallest maieutic, natural
size. FIG. 2. maieutic fixed on the end of a catheter. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in It thou Shalt not do
any work, thou, . . . nor thy maidservant. Ex. xx. 10. maieutic (ma-u'tik), ..."
3. The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, Chiefly from the Text of by Plato (1854)
"In the fifth (tetralogy), the Theages, or About Philosophy, takes the lead,
maieutic; the Charmides, or About Temperance, tentative; the Laches, ..."
4. A Student's Textbook in the History of Education by Stephen Duggan (1916)
"This was the Socratic maieutic element. (maieutic, giving birth to; Socrates
called himself an intellectual midwife.) The individual was first led from ..."
5. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"The law which he obeys is really self-imposed, and he is conscious of it as such,
though the consciousness requires a certain ' maieutic' before it can be ..."
6. History of the Problems of Philosophy by Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles (1902)
"Hence his maieutic or spiritual midwifery. ... The principal steps in the maieutic
were induction, definition, and deduction, three operations that are ..."
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