commentatrix

Well! Having thus luckily got rid of one, to whose Strength or Truth I was on the Verge of yielding, I return to my Office of Commentatrix. You muſt know, Dear Harriot, that this laſt crabbed Word ſticks in my Throat. I am not ſure that the Word Commentator may be changed like Executor; and I dare not ask for fear of betraying myſelf. I hope D—ds—y will look to theſe literal Errors, he being the only one of the Trade I can venture to truſt.

1748, a Lady, in a Letter to her Friend in the Country, A Free Comment on the Late Mr. W—g—n’s Apology for His Conduct; Which Clears Up the Obscurities of That Celebrated Posthumous Work, and Dissipates the Clouds in Which the Author Has Thought Proper to Envelope His Meaning, London: […] W. Webb, pages 14–15

No woman, however, united the power of pursuing dissipation and study at the same time, with so much success; and beholders saw with astonishment the commentatrix of Newton, after leaving a card-table, instruct, and converse with the learned and the gay.

1821, “The Life of Voltaire, with interesting Particulars respecting his Death, and Anecdotes and Characters of his Contemporaries. By Frank Hall Standish, Esq. 8vo. pp. 393. Andrews. London, 1821.”, in The British Review, and London Critical Journal, volume XVII, London: […] Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, […]; and J. Hatchard and Son, […], page 89

“[…]Her commentary is generally considered as a performance highly creditable to the female intellect, but as showing a good deal the author’s intellectual petticoats.” We may add that she frequently betrays too strong a bias in favour of the claims of her own sex. Some further information as to this commentatrix is to be found at page 359 of Messrs. West and Bühler’s work, Bk. I.[…]The passage, when purged of the interpolations obtained from the commentatrix Bálambhaṭṭa, runs thus:[…]

1871, Bombay High Court Report. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Bombay., volume VII, Bombay: […] the Education Society’s Press, Byculla, pages 169 and vi

COMMENTATRIX / Miss Thompson has a way with her words and wits, which is surely if slowly catching on with the more cogitatious of listeners. Cigaret-sponsored, Miss Thompson (really Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) is heard each Friday at 9:45 WMAQ.

1937 October 17, The Hammond Times, volume XXXII, number 102, Hammond, Ind., page thirteen

Vyvyan Donner, Fox Movietone newsreel commentatrix who follows the horserace shots, which follow the political speech shots, which follow the disaster scenes, will do the announcing of the lavish spectacle for Movietone.

1947 May 1, “Mt. Hood Sports Style Show Will Feature Rubber-Bottom Ski Suit”, in Albany Democrat-Herald, volume LXXIX, number 179, page 4