Meanings
verbparturiate (third-person singular simple present parturiates, present participle parturiating, simple past and past participle parturiated)
present singular third person parturiates · participle present parturiating · participle past parturiated · past parturiated
- datedintransitiveTo bring forth young; to give birth.
—Himself his own father, Sonmulligan told himself. Wait. I am big with child. I have an unborn child in my brain. Pallas Athena! A play! The play’s the thing! Let me parturiate!
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
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