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doctrices

doctrices is the plural of doctrix.

Meaning of doctrix

Noun

doctrix (plural doctrices or doctrixes)

  1. (humorous, obsolete, rare) A female doctor, chiefly a physician.
    • Secondly, There is a Doctrix, concerning whom I will relate unto you these most certain stories.[…]A sickly Rustick came unto her, complaining of a pain in his neck, and betwixt his shoulders. She affirmed his disease to be the Ripples in his neck, and essayed to cure him thus;[…]A Rustick woman...1664, Matthew Mackaile, Moffet-Well, or, A Topographico-Spagyricall Description of the Minerall Wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland, Edinburgh: […] Robert Brown, pages 173–174
    Synonyms:
    doctoress//doctress, Drss.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A female teacher.
    • Alice Driuer martyr. This was the doctrix of the forſaid weauer, who was ſo malepart and contumelious before the iudges, as firſt her eares were cutt of, for callinge Q. Mary Iezabell.1603, A Treatise of Three Conversions, page 11

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Noun capitalized: Doctrices

Doctrices

  1. (plural) plural of Doctrix

Origin of doctrices

Learned borrowing from Latin doctrīcēs.

Questions about doctrices

What is doctrices the plural of?
Doctrices is the plural of doctrix.
What part of speech is doctrices?
Doctrices is a noun.

Words near doctrices in the dictionary

  1. doctour
  2. doctours
  3. doctourship
  4. doctress
  5. doctresses
  6. doctrices
  7. doctrinable
  8. doctrinaire
  9. doctrinairely
  10. doctrinaires
  11. doctrinairism

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