单词 | oratrice |
释义 | † oratricen. Obsolete. 1. A female pleader, plaintiff, or petitioner. Formerly commonly used in closing a formal letter or petition to a superior: cf. orator n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > female oratrice1432 oratrixa1469 oratress1587 invitress1617 solicitress1631 solicitrix1637 suitress1691 society > faith > worship > prayer > [noun] > one who performs > female oratrice1432 1432 Rolls of Parl. IV. 396/2 Plese to your high discretions that the saide Oratrice myght be restorid to the seid Maner of Helston. c1447 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 261 Ȝowr poor oratrice, Universite of Oxenford. 1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 551/2 To graunte unto youre said Oratricez youre moost gratious Lettres Patentes. 1513–14 Act 5 Hen. VIII c. 12, Preamble Your true and feithfull Subgiet and daily Oratrice Margaret Pole. 1559 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Christian Congregation St. Andrews (1889) I. 20 Your wisedome's maist humil and obedient oratrice Elizabeth Gedde. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §145 Execution against your said poore Oratrices husband. 1608 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 562 Ȝow lordschips puir oratrice Marioun Heislop. 2. A female public speaker; = oratress n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 1565 B. Garter Tragicall Hist. Two Eng. Louers sig. B.iiiv The nursh is growen an oratrice. her tongue is smothelie sield. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 115 Being admired by the people, she came into the Senat, nor needed this fairest Oratrice to win their attention by any artificial Rhetorick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1432 |
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