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machinatrices

machinatrices is the plural of machinatrix.

Meaning of machinatrix

Noun

machinatrix (plural machinatrices)

  1. A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.
    • No; thou! thou art the sole machinatrix of all these terrible crimes, thou whose wickedness as a woman is supplemented with that masculine strength which has endowed thee with the audacity to perpetrate such deeds […]1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act II., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 421.

Questions about machinatrices

What is machinatrices the plural of?
Machinatrices is the plural of machinatrix.

Words near machinatrices in the dictionary

  1. machinating
  2. machination
  3. machinations
  4. machinator
  5. machinators
  6. machinatrices
  7. machinatrix
  8. Machinda
  9. machine
  10. machine age
  11. machine code

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