animatrix

Noun

animatrix (plural animatrices)

1. (rare) A female animator (one who animates something, brings something to life).
   • With Foucault, Goldhill assumes that “the desiring subject” (p. 45) is male; in his learned disquisition on the importance of the act of reading (p. 45), Goldhill never addresses the gender of the reader, that curious creature who is at once the target of the text and its reanimator—or animatrix.1997, Journal of the History of Sexuality, volume 7, page 603
   • She is a prose writer and essayist, a professor of complit & polisci at the University of Cluj, a cultural animatrix, a historian of violence and the gulag, and, to propose this (pilgr)image to the factotum, a formidable poet who said things no one else had the guts or flair to say in Romanian lit.2008, “By a Tiger Writ: An Afterword”, in Joyce Mansour, Ruxandra Cesereanu, transl., Crusader-Woman, Black Widow Press, translation of Femeia-cruciat by Ruxandra Cesereanu, →ISBN, page 117
2. (rare) A female animator (one who creates an animation or cartoon).
   • Video Video, organized by Marien Lewis, video artist and ex-animatrix of A Space, and Monumenta, organized by Stan Denniston, Dave Clarkson and Bernie Miller, two photographers and a sculptor and presently directors of YYZ, are only further proof that such centres have been the seedbeds and forums...1983, The Canadian Forum, volume 62, page 48, column 1
   • [title]2003, Heidi Guedel, Animatrix—a Female Animator: How Laughter Saved My Life, iUniverse, →ISBN