† ˈsextress, -trice Obs. rare.
[f. sexton by substitution of the suffixes -tress, -trice. Cf. next.]
= sextoness.
| a 1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 138 note, Hou vre lady dude þe offys of a sextresse fyftene ȝeer for a nonne. 1476 Crabhouse Reg. (1889) 11 The mony..remaynyd..to the profiht of the sextrice. |