单词 | doctrix |
释义 | doctrixn. Now rare. A female doctor (in various senses); = doctress n. Cf. doctoress n., doctrice n. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1604 |
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