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单词 doctrix
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doctrixn.

Brit. /ˈdɒktrɪks/, U.S. /ˈdɑkˌtrɪks/
Inflections: Plural doctrices, doctrixes.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin doctrix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin doctrix female teacher (Vulgate), feminine of classical Latin doctor doctor n. Compare earlier doctress n., doctrice n.The plural doctrices is formally indistinguishable from the plural of doctrice n.; the instance in quot. 1696 may belong at that entry instead.
Now rare.
A female doctor (in various senses); = doctress n. Cf. doctoress n., doctrice n.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > female
teacheressa1382
doctricea1475
instructrice?1529
doctress1549
doctrix1604
instructress1608
doctoress1626
lectoress1634
introductress1657
preceptress1712
educatress1800
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > female
woman physician1533
doctress1577
doctrix1604
doctoress1641
physicianess1662
lady doctor1684
1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. III. xv. 254 Alice Driuer, a famous doctrix.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. ii. 53 This country of Palestine is called..the nurse of the prophets, the doctrix of the Apostles.
1696 G. Harvey Treat. Small-pox & Measles (new ed.) 71 They [sc. the Small-pox] appear either in a greater number, or lesser; of which latter the bigger are call'd by the Doctrices the Swine-pox, and the lesser the Chicken-pox.
1746 in A. Edgar Old Church Life Scotl. (1885) 270 (note) In 1746 a ‘doctrix’ was consulted in Galston about the recovery of a sick child.
1866 Westmorland Gaz. 24 Nov. 7 Of the personal appearance of the doctrix that journal says:—‘She wore a long, dark close-fitting tunic, [etc.]’.
1871 Words of Weight on Woman Question 198 The Rev. Canon Kingley..hoped to see the day when a doctrix (that good old title) would be attached to every ladies' college.
1918 Flemington (Victoria, Austral.) Spectator 16 May Dr. Gweneth Wisewould, a lady practitioner—or ‘doctrix’ in accordance with a term we once heard suggested by a medical man.
2018 @JosieHypatia 15 June in twitter.com (accessed 26 Nov. 2021) One of my schoolteachers was a Doctrix J M Gregory. Partly to differentiate her from her husband (Doctor J M Gregory) who also taught at the school, partly because she was a badass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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