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单词 moderatrix
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moderatrixn.

Brit. /mɒdəˈreɪtrɪks/, U.S. /ˌmɑdəˈreɪtrɪks/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin moderātrix.
Etymology: < classical Latin moderātrix, a (female) person who or thing which controls, regulates, or restrains, feminine form corresponding to moderātor moderator n.: see -trix suffix. Compare earlier moderatrice n. and slightly later moderatress n.
Now rare.
= moderatress n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > female
dame?c1225
governoressc1430
ruleressc1450
governess1483
gubernatrice1522
moderatrice1531
governatrice1532
gubernatrix1541
dominatrix1561
governantec1570
moderatrix1577
rectrix1588
rectress1599
moderatress1601
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > one who or that which mitigates or moderates > female
moderatrix1577
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner > at universities
regentc1447
moderator1573
moderatrix1577
tripos1660
tripus1670
praeses1761
senate-house examiner1855
opposer1891
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > president or chairperson of > female
moderatress1601
chairwoman1699
prolocutress1737
moderatrix1753
speakeress1781
chairlady1925
1577 T. Timme tr. J. Calvin Comm. 1 Cor. 64 b (margin) Loue the moderatrix of contention.
1594 T. Fleming Speech to Barons Exchequer (Harl. 852) in J. Nichols Progresses & Public Processions Queen Elizabeth (1823) III. 257 Discretion is not soe much a vertue as it is a moderatrix and governess of all vertues, the order of affections, and the mistress of good manners.
a1614 W. Cope Apol. R. Cecil in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 120 He loved equity, as the true umpress between them both, as moderatrix of extremes.
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 63 Your Church hath..practised it a long time, for a woman to be head or supreme moderatrix in the Church.
1673 B. Makin Ess. to revive Antient Educ. Gentlewomen 13 She is ordinarily a Moderatrix in the Academy at the Disputation amongst learned Wits.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. x. 386 He had given up all his resentments to the Republic; made her the Moderatrix of all his acts.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lv. 354 The debate was closed, and referred to Mrs. Shirley, as moderatrix.
1799 W. G. Browne Trav. Afr. xix. 296 Whoever..receives to his bed the daughter of a king or powerful Melek..finds her sole moderatrix of his family, and himself reduced to a cipher.
1828 Edinb. Rev. May 430 Their mother, Jocasta, acts as moderatrix between them, instead of the Chorus.
1873 S. Menzies Polit. Women II. iii. i. 261 To impart more gravity to the national movement, to which she gave the impulse in order to remain the moderatrix, she had required the recall of Amelot.
1923 M. Summers Vampire in Europe 307 At the head of each company [of ‘live-vampires’] is a master or mistress as the case may be, the men following their officer, and the women together with their moderatrix.
1990 T. M. Conley Rhetoric in European Trad. v. 110 As Cicero had observed in his De inventione, rhetoric is the moderatrix of force, which is ‘a very untrustworthy servant’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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