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To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] "Nature does obstetricate." Evelyn.

To deprive of a limb; to lop. [R.]

See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [Obs.]

To darken; to cloud. [Obs.] Boyle.

Too delicate.

Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.]

Pacified; pacate.

To rub over. Bailey.

To petrify. [Obs.] Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646).

ston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

To appease; to pacify; to concilate. "Therefore is he always propitiated and placated." Cudworth.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf. -- Pli"cate*ly, adv.

Same as Pollicate.

Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects.

The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope. Addison.

Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

Formed before due examination. "Ignorance and prejudicate opinions." Jer. Taylor.

With prejudice.