† servitrix Sc. Obs.
[a. med.L. servītrix (Diefenbach), fem. of L. servītor: see servitor.]
A female servant.
| 1566 in Maitl. Club Misc. (1840) I. 43 Marie Betoune familiar servitrix to our said souerane lady. 1615 in Ritchie Churches of St. Baldred (1880) 136 Janet Shortus, servitrix to Mr. Alexander Knowis. c 1775 in M{supc}Dowall Hist. Dumfries xlvii. (1867) 680 [Janet Watson] a servitrix [at the very farm]. |