communicatrix

plural communicatrices · plural communicatrixes

1. rareA female communicator.

   Attractive, prof. d/w/m, owner of 5 garlic presses, seeks adventurous 40+ communicatrix, over 5'3'", a smart, lithesome woman.

   1992 May 31, “Classified”, in Sunday Province, Vancouver, B.C., page D4, column 3

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   And he began to say, “Come bowels of perfection; come communicatrix of the masculine; come, thou that knowest the mysteries of the elect: come,” &c. &c. (see page 162).

   1850, J. A. Wickham, “Apocryphal and uncanonical gospels, &c.”, in A Synopsis of the Doctrine of Baptism, Regeneration, Conversion, &c. and Kindred Subjects, by the Fathers and Other Writers from the Time of Our Saviour to the End of the Fourth Century, London: George Bell, […], page 165

   I see now that, hobbled by hobby, I’ve presented my wife as a very intricately programmed phatic communicatrix (or whatever the sociological jargon is).

   1970, Anthony Burgess, “The Private Dialect of Husbands and Wives”, in Alexander Scharbach, Ralph H. Singleton, editors, The New Lively Rhetoric: Readings, Analyses, Arguments, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 74

   Other bees smell the communicatrix, or receive small draughts of scented liquid from her, and then search for food sources with the appropriate scent.

   1971, J. B. S. Haldane, “Animal Ritual and Human Language”, in The Cosmos Reader, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 139

   ‘Thing is,’ said Isaac thoughtfully, ‘it can’t just be the strength of the signal that attracts them, or it would only ever be the seers and communicatrixes and so on that got taken.[…]’

   2000, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 608

   In the thaumaturgic listening post in the Spike, the echelon of communicators and communicatrices would be blinking fast and trying to decipher from the city’s welter of cognition which illicit topics were being spoken.

   2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 311