单词 | dictatrix |
释义 | dictatrixn. A female dictator; = dictatress n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > person having absolute authority > woman dictatrix1623 dictatress1677 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Dictatrix, a woman commanding things to be don. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 42 The Church of Rome which is the great dictatrix of dogmaticall resolutions. 1756 G. Anderson Remonstr. against Lord Viscount Bolingbroke’s Philos. Relig. viii. 217 How can you plead a religious conscience as dictatrix of what is morally good and evil, when you deny God's moral attributes? 1789 J. Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 206 A Dictatrix on the seas. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. ii. iii. 70 Mrs Primmins..housekeeper, and tyrannical dictatrix of the whole establishment. 1871 H. B. Stowe My Wife & I xxxii. 340 The height of felicity for a daughter would be the position that should enable her to be the mistress and dictatrix of his ample fortune. 1912 Manitoba Morning Free Press 9 Dec. 12/2 (advt.) Nothing that the charming Dictatrix of Fashion could have recommended would have been more appropriate to the occasion. 1980 Pacific Affairs 53 355 The..demand for law and order that provides potential support for a would-be dictator or dictatrix. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 10 Aug. 5 The great fashion dictatrix Diana Vreeland once decreed that it wasn't bad taste she couldn't stand, but no taste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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