Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female orator.
- noun In law, a female petitioner or female plaintiff in a bill in chancery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female plaintiff , orcomplainant , inequity pleading .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among these are the Tres Marías yellow-headed parrot Amazona oratrix tresmariae, yellow-naped parrot Amazona auropalliata and the Tres Maríastropical parula Parula pitiayumi insularis.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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One of them, the yellow-headed parrot (Amazona oratrix) lives in this ecoregion, although it is being adversely affected by destruction of the habitat.
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At Rome the cause dragged on, -- there is a gap at this epoch in the reports of the Rota, and it does not appear if there was any argument either by the advocates of the 'orator' or 'oratrix', or by the defensor, -- till at last, on March 25, 1534, the Pope, in a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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