Mediatrix
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female mediator.
"My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate."
- 2 a woman who is a mediator wordnet
- 3 A bisector, the line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint. rare
"[…] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]"
Example
More examples"My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin mediātrīx. By surface analysis, mediator + -trix.
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