Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An abbreviation
  • of obstetrical;
  • of obstetrics.

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  • May 21st, 2006 at 5:32 pm nihil obstet 157 — yes, I personally believe that a major objective progressives should embrace is the restoration of the rights of individuals and inherent protections, over the rights of corporations.

    Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Before the Storm, Pt. 2 2006

  • BDBlue nihil obstet vastleft arwe gmanedit john. halle spiceweazel ntoddpax

    The Fire In His Hands Cook, Glen 1984

  • QVOMINVS = is rare in Augustan verse; but compare _AA_ II 720 'non obstet tangas quominus illa [_sc_ loca] pudor'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _ 79, 5-7, 'Donec pudor obstet, ne Aetnam describas in tuo carmine et hunc sollemnem omnibus poetis locum adtingas; quem quo minus Ovidius tractaret, nihil obstitit, quod iam Vergilius impleverat ...

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Me uero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant caelique uias et sidera monstrent, 20 defectus solis uarios lunaeque labores; unde tremor terris, qua ui maria alta tumescant obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant, quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles hiberni, uel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.

    'God made the country but man made the town' Vergil 1912

  • Jack Crow jeffroby spiceweazel nihil obstet vastleft

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  • ElizabethF nihil obstet tarheel-leftist85 basement angel

    Corrente 2010

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  • Mothers of children diagnosed with autism are more likely to be older and to have experienced obstet ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

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