单词 | servitrix |
释义 | servitrixn. Originally Scottish. Now rare (chiefly literary in later use). A female servant or attendant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > woman or girl maidenOE schelchenec1000 womanOE maidc1300 ancillec1366 wench1380 child-womana1382 maidservanta1382 serving-womana1398 servantessa1425 servant maid?a1450 woman servant1450 servitrice1477 administress1483 ministressa1500 serving maid?1529 maiden-servant1533 servitrix1566 miskin-fro1585 servant girl1658 girl1668 necessary womanc1689 scout1708 servitress1827 ancilla1871 1566 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 43 Marie Betoune familiar servitrix to our said souerane lady. 1615 in A. I. Ritchie Churches St. Baldred (1880) 136 Janet Shortus, servitrix to Mr. Alexander Knowis. 1683 T. Brown Diary 4 July (1898) 26 Mr Richard Mean..was maried to Christian Hosea, servatrix to Bischop M'Kenzie. 1742 Princ. Acts Gen. Assembly Church Scotl. Index sig. I2v An appeal of Mary Heatly, Servitrix to Alexander Gordon of Shirrington, from a sentence of the Synod of Dumfries. 1856 E. Robinson City Banker III. xvi. 372 ‘Scheele's strength?—or a little stronger?’ interrupted the audacious servitrix. 2000 J. Meaney Paradox xxi. 107 The auburn-haired servitrix had given a crystal to her mistress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566 |
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