† tutrix Obs.
(ˈtjuːtrɪks)
[a. L. tūtrix, fem. of tūtor tutor. Cf. prec. and tutress, tutoress.]
A female tutor. a. A female guardian. b. An instructress, a governess. rare.
| 1515 in Archæologia XLVII. 303 Suffre me as tutrix of the yong king. 1546 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 50 Tutrix testamentar to hir barnes and said umquhile Hew. 1590 Swinburne Testaments 97 By the ciuill lawe a woman (the mother and grand-mother excepted) can not bee assigned tutrix. 1652 W. Hartley Infant-Baptism 10 Those pupils she became tutrix to. 1659 A. Hay Diary (S.H.S. 1901) 209 That the Lady subscryve her renunciation..in her name as tutrix. 1680 Dalgarno Deaf & Dumb Man's Tutor v. 49 A pratling Nurse is a better Tutrix to her foster-child. 1702–3 in Tindal tr. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (1745) IV. xxvi. 596/1 A Tutrix or Regent, during the minority of her supposed brother. |
Hence † ˈtutrixship, the office of tutrix. Obs. rare—1.
| 1520 Q. Margaret in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 276 The recoveryng of my..Tutrixship of the Kyng my Soon. |