executrix
(ɛkˈsɛkjʊtrɪks)
Pl. -trices.
[a. med.L. execūtrix, fem. of ex(s)ecūtor: see executor.]
A female executor; esp. a woman appointed by a testator to execute his will.
| 1502 Bury Wills (1850) 95 Of this my testament and last will I make myn executrix the seid Anne my wyff. a 1577 Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. (1609) 120 [Wives] bee..made at the death of their husbands eyther sole or chiefe executrices of his last will and Testament. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. xxii. 249 Unlesse the intelligences the executrices of Gods providence have used this Art in some Region. 1765 Blackstone Comm. i. xvii, A female..at seventeen may be executrix. 1827 J. Powell Devises II. 33 A testator..appointing his wife S. sole executrix of his will. |
Hence † eˈxecutrixship. Obs. rare—1, the office of executrix.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. viii. 229 The executrixship of all is thine. |