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machinatrix

machinatrix noun: a woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.

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.

Forms of machinatrix

pluralmachinatrices

Origin of machinatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin māchinātrīx. By surface analysis, machinate + -trix.

Questions about machinatrix

What does machinatrix mean?
Machinatrix means a woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.
What part of speech is machinatrix?
Machinatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of machinatrix?
The plural of machinatrix is machinatrices.

Words near machinatrix in the dictionary

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

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