Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who moderates or governs: used sometimes figuratively.
- noun A female umpire or judge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female moderator.
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- noun A
female moderator .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Serenissima Elizibetha, moderatrix rerum et negotiorum omnium plebis et famili� Nazarenorum sapientissima; Origo splendoris et glori� dulcissima; nebes pluuiarum gratissima, heres et domina beatitudinis et glori� regni inclyti Angli� ad quam omnes supplices confugiunt, incrementum omnium rerum et actionum
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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To impart more gravity to the national movement, to which she gave the impulse in order to remain the moderatrix, she had required the recall of Amelot, who had long assumed at Madrid the attitude of a prime minister rather than that of an ambassador; and Louis XIV., deferring to that wish, had replaced that experienced agent by a simple
Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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Christian love should be the moderatrix of all our actions towards men.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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I say then, that charity and Christian love should be the moderatrix of all our actions towards men.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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Elizibetha, moderatrix rerum et negotiorum omnium plebis et familiæ
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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This, according to him, goes by no means alone -- he is not so fantastic -- but only it goes first; temperance with him is the moderatrix, not the adversary of pleasure.
The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 19 Michel de Montaigne 1562
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This, according to him, goes by no means alone -- he is not so fantastic -- but only it goes first; temperance with him is the moderatrix, not the adversary of pleasure.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562
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