† salvatrice Obs. rare.
[ad. med.L. salvātrīc-em (nom. -trix), f. salvāre to save.]
1. A female saviour.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 67 [To our Lady] Oratrice, mediatrice, salvatrice. |
2. Old name for one of the coats (tunicæ) of the eye; in full tunicle salvatrice (= L. tunica salvatrix).
| 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physic i. xxx. (1596) 50 Some..imagin but only two coates, the one whereof they tearme Saluatrix, because it saueth and keepeth the humors. Ibid. xxxiv. 54 The tunicle saluatrice. Ibid. 55 It is not safe to aduenture to cure it [the ‘second pannicle’], when by continuance of time, it hath vnited it selfe with the saluatrice. |