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commandress|kəˈmɑːndrɪs, -æ-|
Chiefly 17th c.
[f. commander + -ess.]
A female commander.
1592Nobody & Someb. (1878) 326 That I might live..To have that sterne commandresse in my power! 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. ii. (1651) 555 She was the commandress of his heart. 1650Don Bellianis 219 Commandress over so many Kings, Princes, Lords and Signories. 1819L. Hunt Indicator No. 8 (1822) I. 63 The King made her commandress of Santos. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. II. 157 My own little heroine was..inventress, commandress, guiding head and soul of everything.
b. fig. (of things personified).
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. (1617) 197 Wisedome..as Queene or soueraigne commandresse ouer other vertues. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1191 The Nauy the Commandresse of the Seas. a1716South Serm. (1717) IV. 418 Money; the absolute Commandress of Fleets and Armies. |