Meaning

(rare) Female equivalent of author..

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Authrice: f. An Autrix, Authoreſſe, or Actreſſe.

Eue was auctrix of death: Marie is auctrix of merit. Eue did hurt by killing: Marie did helpe by quickening, &c.

That the Magnetiſme of the Loadſtone and other inanimate Creatures is performed by a certain Naturall ſenſation, the immediate Authrix of all ſympathy, is a truth unqueſtionable.

As for the publick injuries to which thou oughtest to give satisfaction, two things are required. One to produce the author, or confesse thy self to be autrix of the calumnies raised against the Queen and the Prince of Arabia.

Yet we need not introduce Præexiſtence to ſolve the miſfortune, nor father this their infelicity on the miſcarriages of a former ſtate, to prevent daring reflections on Providence, as if that were the Autrix of it;

Doubtless the authrix of the item in question was the same reportrix who told about “Paderewski and I” in a recent issue of a city paper which appears to have surrendered itself to reportrixes and such like curios.

Frances Joyce is star of technicolor ads, a toe dancer, and authrix of a non-spooked book on her experiences as a model.

Oh puh-leeze, won't somebody out there dig up a copy of _Motorcycle Mouse_ or _Runaway Ralph_ (great kid's books about a mouse named Ralph -- sorry, the authrix' name escapes me) and find the cite of this song?

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Use authrix when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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