executrix
A female person who executes or carries out something.
Noun
- A female person who executes or carries out something.
- My deere he ſayes, vvho vnder golden haire / And vvith a looke ſo delicate in ſhovv, / Doth aged vvit, and manly ſtomacke beare: / […] / VVeaue thou the vveb begun by my deuice, / Of vvarie age as bold executrice. //...
- [A]s for Paracelſus his conceit that Giants and Nymphs vvere artificially born, that he ſayes is falſe: For the firſt ought to be born vvithout humane Art: and that they uſed Art to the generation of men, and not Nature...
- A female person appointed to execute the wishes of a deceased person as stated in their will; a female executor.
- And fewe [wives] there be that be not made at the death of their huſbandes either ſole or chiefe executrixes of his laſt wil and teſtament, and haue for the moſt part the gouernement of the children and their portions:...
- A female […] at ſeventeen may be executrix; and at tvventy one may diſpoſe of herſelf and her lands. - 1765, William Blackstone, “Of Guardian and Ward”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of...
- [S]he is an executrix, and she likes to go into these things—property, land, that kind of thing. - 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLIX, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London:...
Synonyms: executress execx exrx exx Ex'x
Coordinate Terms: administrator administratrix executor
- A dominatrix who acts a fantasy of killing her client.
- The fact that a Google search for “Femdom Executrix” yields over 2,000 results for online videos is proof enough that the erotic death fantasy is an aspect […] - 2023 September 20, Douglas Thomas, The Deep Psychology of...
Origin
From Late Middle English executrice, executrix (“female executor; administrator of the law; wielder of fate”), from Medieval Latin execūtrīx (possibly through Anglo-Norman *executrice) from execūtor, exsecūtor (“accomplisher, performer; prosecutor, revenger”), + Latin -trīx (suffix forming feminine agent nouns). Exsecūtor is derived from Latin exsequor (“to follow after thoroughly, pursue persistently; (figurative) to execute, perform; to pursue with vengeance, avenge”) (from ex- (intensifying prefix) + sequor (“to follow, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”))) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns). By surface analysis, execute + -trix (suffix forming feminine agent nouns).