parturient \pahr-TOOR-ee-uhnt\,
adjective:
1. Bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
2. Pertaining to parturition.
3. Bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.
With a scornful snicker, he settled himself behind his desk, replaced the empty cigarette holder in his mouth and lapsed into parturient silence for a few moments.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch 22"
To her nothing already then thenceforward was anyway able to be molestful for this chiefly felt all citizens except with proliferate mothers prosperity at all not to can be and as they had received eternity gods mortals generation to befit them her beholding, when the case was so hoving itself, parturient in vehicle thereward carrying desire immense among all one another was impelling on of her to be received into that domicile.
-- James Joyce, "Ulysses"
Prometheus or Hephaistos smote the head of the parturient god with an axe, and Athena leaped out fully armed.
-- William F. Hansen, "Handbook of Classical Mythology"
Parturient is derived from the Latin word parturient- which literally meant "being in labor" or "desiring to bring forth."
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