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Definition of Midwifed
1. midwife [v] - See also: midwife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midwifed
Literary usage of Midwifed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"When midwifed into daylight, the gossips were at a loss to pronounce upon its
species. Most took it for a marrow spoon, an apple scoop, a banker's guinea ..."
2. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1875)
"... creeping, squinting, impish motion, conceived in the dark and midwifed in a
committee-room." Among those who opposed the bill was Nathaniel P. Banks, ..."
3. The Works of Charles Lamb: to which are prefixed his letters, and a sketch by Charles Lamb (1871)
"When midwifed into daylight, the gossips were at a loss to pronounce upon its
species. Most took it for a marrow-spoon, an apple-scoop, ..."
4. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1852)
"Wben midwifed into daylight, the gossips were at a loss to pronounce upon its
species. Most took it for a marrow-spoon, ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1771)
"... which was father'd by one of the parties concerned, and midwifed by the other
two into the world ; '•'.' And that (as K. Richard fays) у« lamely and ..."
6. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"... the first several editions of which I had midwifed. I had atoned in some degree
for the "sin" of writing several college textbooks by giving to the ..."
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