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machinatrix

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act II., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 421. No; thou! thou art the sole machinatrix of all these terrible crimes, thou whose wickedness as a woman is supplemented with that masculine strength which has endowed thee with the audacity to perpetrate such deeds [...]

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History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin māchinātrīx. By surface analysis, machinate + -trix.