Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Obstetricious \Ob`ste*tri"cious\, a. [See {Obstetric}.]
   Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating
   any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.]

         Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or
         obstetricious.                           --Cudworth.