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formatrix

formatrix noun: a formative faculty.

Noun

formatrix (plural formatrixes or formatrices)

  1. (obsolete) A formative faculty.
    • By which laſt Obſervables, we ſee that there may be very pretty body ſhap’d and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the leaſt ſhew or probability of any other ſeminal formatrix.1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Obſerv[ation]. XX. Of blue Mould, and of the firſt Principles of Vegetation ariſing from Putrefaction.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies...

Forms of formatrix

pluralformatrixes
pluralformatrices

Origin of formatrix

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fōrmātrīx. By surface analysis, form + -ate + -trix.

Questions about formatrix

What does formatrix mean?
Formatrix means a formative faculty.
What part of speech is formatrix?
Formatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of formatrix?
The plural of formatrix is formatrixes.

Words near formatrix in the dictionary

  1. formatizes
  2. formatizing
  3. formator
  4. formators
  5. formatrices
  6. formatrix
  7. formatrixes
  8. formats
  9. formattable
  10. formatted
  11. formatter

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