| 单词 |
oratrix |
| 释义 |
oratrix|ɒˈreɪtrɪks, ˈɒrətrɪks|
Pl. oratrices |-siːz|.
[a. L. ōrātrix, pl. -trīcēs, fem. of ōrātor orator.]
A female orator.
†1. A female petitioner or plaintiff: see quot. 1848. Obs.
1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 551/2 To graunte unto youre said Oratrices youre moost gratious Lettres Patentes. 1534–5in C. More Life Sir T. More (1828) 373 Your poure contynuall Oratryx Dame Alis More. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie §145 It chaunced the husband of your said Oratrix..to be bounden in a Recognisance. 1747Mem. Nutrebian Crt. I. 107 The king, raising the princess, said to the queen, Your little oratrix has pleaded too well, not to succeed. 1848Wharton Law Lex., Oratrix, or Oratress, a female petitioner; a female plaintiff in a bill in Chancery [ed. 1872 adds was formerly so called].
2. = oratress 2.
1592Kyd Sol. & Pers. i. iii. 69, I fight not with my tongue; this is my Oratrix. (Laying his hand vpon his sword.) 1651Charleton Eph. & Cimm. Matrons ii. (1668) 5 There needed not much of Rhetorick on the part of this Oratrix. 1842Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. i, That magic spell of poesy, which the elegant oratrix flung round her audience. 1865Pall Mall G. No. 210. 5/2 The well-known secularist oratrix. |
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