authrix
nounEtymology Compare Latin auctrīx (also authrīx and autrīx in later Latin) and Middle English auctrice, auctrix. By surface analysis, author + -trix.
- Authrice: f. An Autrix, Authoreſſe, or Actreſſe.1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Authrice”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature H ij, recto, column 2:
- Eue was auctrix of death: Marie is auctrix of merit. Eue did hurt by killing: Marie did helpe by quickening, &c.1614, Iohn White, A Defence of the Way to the True Church Against A.D. His Reply Wherein the Motives Leading to Papistry, and Questions, Touching the Rule of Faith, the Authoritie of the Church, the Succession of the Truth, and the Beginning of Romish Innouations: Are Handled and Fully Disputed, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Barret, pages 122–123:
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- That the Magnetiſme of the Loadſtone and other inanimate Creatures is performed by a certain Naturall ſenſation, the immediate Authrix of all ſympathy, is a truth unqueſtionable.1650, Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont, translated by Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes. The Magnetick Cure of Wounds. Nativity of Tartar in Wine. Image of God in Man., London: […] James Flesher for William Lee, page 76:
- As for the publick injuries to which thou oughtest to give satisfaction, two things are required. One to produce the author, or confesse thy self to be autrix of the calumnies raised against the Queen and the Prince of Arabia.1655, Gio[vanni] Francesco Biondi, translated by R[obert] G[entilis], Coralbo: A New Romance in Three Bookes, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, page 124:
- Yet we need not introduce Præexiſtence to ſolve the miſfortune, nor father this their infelicity on the miſcarriages of a former ſtate, to prevent daring reflections on Providence, as if that were the Autrix of it;1667, E[dward] W[arren], No Præexistence. Or a brief Dissertation Against the Hypothesis of Humane Souls, Living in a State Antecedaneous to This., London: […] T. R. for Samuel Thomson, page 24:
- Doubtless the authrix of the item in question was the same reportrix who told about “Paderewski and I” in a recent issue of a city paper which appears to have surrendered itself to reportrixes and such like curios.1896 February 28, “Is Merely a Teacher”, in The Fresno Weekly Republican, volume XX, number 9, Fresno, Calif.:
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