Heritrix
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female heritor.
"They got also Lufnes by marieng the heritrix theirof Riccartoun.[…]The Lairds of Glenbervie are not the oldest Douglasses as some say, but a cadet of Angus maried the heritrix theirof, they being then Melvils verie old in that name, and the powerfullest in all the Mearnes.[…]He was a cadet of Erroll, and the 1 heritrix he married with was one Macfud, and by her he got his land in Twedall;[…]Tho some alledge their was in old tymes a Lord Giffard, and that it ended with ane heritrix married in the house of Yester:[…]"
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More examples"They got also Lufnes by marieng the heritrix theirof Riccartoun.[…]The Lairds of Glenbervie are not the oldest Douglasses as some say, but a cadet of Angus maried the heritrix theirof, they being then Melvils verie old in that name, and the powerfullest in all the Mearnes.[…]He was a cadet of Erroll, and the 1 heritrix he married with was one Macfud, and by her he got his land in Twedall;[…]Tho some alledge their was in old tymes a Lord Giffard, and that it ended with ane heritrix married in the house of Yester:[…]"
Etymology
From heritor, formed in imitation of female equivalents in -trix. By surface analysis, herit + -trix.
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