inheritrix
(ɪnˈhɛrɪtrɪks)
Also 6–7 enheritrix, 7 enheretrixe, 7–8 inheretrix.
[Latinized fem. of inheritor, after L. feminines in -trix: cf. heritrix. (Its L. type would be *inhērēditātrix.)]
= prec. (The form in technical use.)
| [a 1481 Littleton Inst. (ed. Houard) 4 (Godef.) Feme enheritrix de terre en fee simple. Ibid. 24 (ibid.) Quecunque que serra inheritrix per force d'un done.] 1531 Dial. on Laws Eng. G ij a, One that is an enherytrix of the landes entayled. a 1586 Sidney Astr. & Stella, ‘While fauor fed my hope’ iv, The proofe of Beauties worth, th' enheritrix of fame. 1609 Bible (Douay) Num. xxxvi. comm., In case, an enheretrixe did marrie a man of an other tribe. 1791 Gentl. Mag. LXI. ii. 924 Both their wives were inheretrixes. 1872 Mrs. Oliphant Mem. Montalambert II. xix. 373 One of his daughters, the inheritrix of much of her father's talent. |