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† forˈmatrix Obs. Also 8 formatrice. [a. late L. formātrix, fem. agent-n. f. formāre to form.] Formative faculty. Also vertue formatrix.
a1648Ld. Herbert Life (1886) 35 Since in my mother's womb this plastica, or formatrix, which formed my eyes, ears, and other senses, did not intend them for that noisome place. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 82 The natural heat which is the instrument of the vertue formatrix. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. 180 The soul endued with a plastick power [is] the chief Formatrix of its own body. |