单词 | progenitrix |
释义 | progenitrixn. A female ancestor or parent. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > female motherOE progenitrixc1487 progenitrice?a1505 grandmother1526 ancestress1580 foremother1582 progenitress1611 predecessrix1640 mai1845 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iii. 203 And as myn auctour writeth, in her fynyshed the roiall sceptre of the Amasons, and how she passed in cheuallry all her noble progenytrices. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. iii. 111 [His grandmother] set for any progenitrix, as it is often vsed. 1704 W. Sheridan Several Disc. vi. 191 The Phœnix being both Successor to, and Progenitrix of her self. 1798 Hull Advertiser 13 Oct. 4/4 There is now living at Allonby..a widow..who is the progenitrix of fifty eight persons. 1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxv. 345 If your daughters won't take out-door exercise from persuasion, then drive them forth as the guardian angel of Eden your erring progenitrix. 1864 Realm 9 Mar. 5 In this young woman, lean, yellow, shrewd and hard, we have the type and progenitrix of the strong-minded Yankee female face, with its keen angularity. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Duncombe, Sir Charles Duncombe's..sister was the progenitrix of the Earl of Feversham. 1907 J. Sinclair Hist. Shorthorn Cattle xii. 518 A heifer called Ladylike, the progenitrix of a large and good family. a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 253 Go into the earth, burrow into your progenitrix. 1987 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 12 In my opinion the Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman like his own mother as his own idealised progenitrix. 2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 29 May 10 A race of aliens,..identifying her..as the ideal progenitrix of a semi-mechanical, dominant master race.., has..borne her off to their planet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1487 |
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