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Ma*ieu"tic (?), Ma*ieu"tic*al (?), a. [Gr. , fr. midwife.]
1.
Serving to assist childbirth.
Cudworth.
2.
Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Payne.
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