executress ? Obs.
(ɛkˈsɛkjʊtrɪs)
Also 6 exequetresse.
[a. OF. executeresse, fem. of executeur: see executor.]
= executrix.
| 1591 Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 27 A will indeed..Wherein the diuell is an ouerseer, And prowd dame Elianor sole Executresse. c 1600 Distracted Emp. ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 187 But how fares The Empresse now, my dear exequetresse? 1818 in Todd; hence in mod. Dicts. |