1902 W. Cross et al. in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 10 573 To express concisely the two groups of standard minerals and their chemical characters in part, the words sal and fem have been adopted... Fem indicates Group II, since its minerals are dominantly ferromagnesian.

1931 A. Johannsen Descr. Petrogr. Igneous Rocks I. viii. 86 The classes are determined by the salic-femic ratio. The five classes are: I. Persalic. Ratio sal:fem greater than 7·00 [etc.].

1573 T. Twyne tr. H. Llwyd Breuiary of Britayne f. 96 Tair, Three, fem. gendre [L. foem.].

1625 T. Wise Animaduersions Lillies Gram. 34 Is that exception of Stockwood to the second generall rule of proper names, good, viz. that Epidaurus, the name of a Citie is of the masc. gender? No: for I finde it of the fem. gender in Martial.

1779 E. Palermo Amusing Pract. Ital. Lang. 19 The fem. article la is here used because dote is a substantive fem. sing. that begins with a consonant.

1876 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. (ed. 4) §20 All Declensions take the Ending m for Masc. and Fem. Nouns.

1938 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 58 397 All through the later history of this noun the tendency to attach the fem. ending to an original collective plural..is in evidence.

2014 Russ. Linguistics 38 180 I will focus on the masc. and fem. singular and just one plural form, for the sake of clarity.

1656 C. Mauger French Gram. 64 From the Generall Rule, of those nouns that are of the fem. these following are to be excepted: bransle, a sudden shock; masque, a Visard; [etc.].

1744 Hebrew Gram. in 5 Lett. New Method learning Hebrew Lang. (end matter) The fem. is form'd by adding ה or ת to the masc.

1836 J. Nicholson tr. G. H. A. Ewald Gram. Hebrew Lang. ii. ii. 202 The characteristic vowel u-i is often lowered before the -â of the fem.

1913 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 34 441 The fem. of a cognomen Costinus which appears once in an inscription on an amphora now in Bologna.

2012 D. Holton et al. Greek (ed. 2) ii. iii. 96 This form, more common for the masc. than for the fem. or neuter, is certainly less formal and it is regarded as incorrect by grammarians.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 314 He was always esteemed an ingenious Man, but weak, as being too much devoted to the fem. Sex.

1759 A. Brice Grand Gazetteer 207/1 When Merchants come to the Foot of those Mountains they are carried over them by the Inhab. but chiefly on the Backs of the Fem. Sex, viz. ev. Man by 3 Women, who relieve each oth. by Turns.

1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora i. 188 Dr. Smith has suggested, that this is the male, and P. hybrida the fem. plant, forming together only one dioicous species.

1848 T. Redwood Gray's Suppl. Pharmacopœia (ed. 2) 464 Male flower. Stamens definite, inserted into the base of the perigone. Fem. flower. Ovary simple. free.

1913 J. F. Rock Indigenous Trees Hawaiian Islands 278 Disc..in the fem. flowers forming a short earpophore.

1941 H. A. Roberts Study Remedies by Compar. Kali Carbonicum... Male: tension, tearing, pulling in organs... Fem. organs: erosion, gnawing, burning, itching.

1975 West Coast Rev. Jan. 53/2 Today, ladies and gentlemen, we do some Fem. Lit., namely this book of short stories by Doris Lessing, the heaviest author in the movement.

1988 Jrnl. Legal Educ. 38 63 Unlike the movement of the 1960s..the new movement of ‘fem-crits’ had already begun to develop theories about law and subordination and the role of law in eliminating or aggravating inequalities.

1993 NWSA Jrnl. 5 283 Gallop surveys anthologies of feminist literary criticism before and after 1981—the year that fem lit crit supposedly gained academic respectability and currency.

2013 @asuebarnett 21 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I started reading The Madwoman in the Attic the other day. Years too late. Fem crit has probably moved on a lot since then.