Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, a woman; a wife.
  • noun A legitimate son, in contradistinction to one born out of wedlock

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A woman.
  • noun Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.
  • noun (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother.

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  • noun law, historical Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage.
  • noun obsolete A woman; a wife or mother.

Etymologies

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Latin mulier ("woman"), from mollior ("softer, weaker").

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Examples

  • And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

  • And there tended to be a similar sort of distinction — though perhaps less starkly delineated — between 3rd-dec. mulier, mulieris (“adult female human”) and 1st-dec. femina, feminae (“a lovely, curvy, nurturing, MILF-y Real Woman”).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » PC 2010

  • Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim.

    Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008

  • Signum magnum apparuit in coelo: mulier amicta sole, et luna sub pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus corona stellarum duodecim.

    August 15: Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Part II bls 2008

  • Magdalae sidus, mulier beata, te pio cultu veneramur omnes, quam sibi Christus sociavit arcti fœdere-amoris.

    July 22, The Feast of St. Mary Magdalene bls 2008

  • Porta, &c., plura invenies, et multo his absurdiora, uti et in Rhasi, ne mulier virum admittat, et maritum solum diligat, &c. But these are most part

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But this nuptial love is a common passion, an honest, for men to love in the way of marriage; ut materia appetit formam, sic mulier virum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pinaeus of Paris, Albertus Magnus de secret.mulier. cap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Yet, as some will, it is much more tolerable for an old man to marry a young woman (our ladies 'match they call it) for cras erit mulier, as he said in Tully.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • To what end are all those astrological questions, an sit virgo, an sit casta, an sit mulier? and such strange absurd trials in

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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