accouche

/əˈkuːʃ/
verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To aid in an accouchement; to assist (a mother) in the birth (of a child).

If a woman be accouched or die in the house of her parents, the parents are unclean for three days, and the brother for one.

Every one recognises in the process of generation a certain amount of hereditariness […] nor (except in the Arabian Nights) do royal husbands believe that their princesses can be accouched of logs of wood.

2

To give birth (to a child); (figuratively) to bring into the world.

After the elaboration of a fact, the most magnificent in all its proportions and most complete in all its details; after accouching a monster such as the world never saw equalled in extent, a leviathan of a lie […]

that immortalized yet unborn Thane of Fife who, invulnerable to normally accouched swordsmen, laid on and slew Macbeth

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