accouching

Verb

accouche (third-person singular simple present accouches, present participle accouching, simple past and past participle accouched)

1. (dated, transitive) 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.1815, Richard Hey, Some Principles of Civilization, page 252
2. (ambitransitive, dated) 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 […]1827 June, “Sir Jonah Barrington’s Personal Sketches of His Own Times”, in The London Magazine, volume 8, page 242