originatrix

Last Tuesday evening our friend Miss C., the “originatrix” of the Tableau performance, at the Town Hall, received a substantial and flattering complimentary benefit at the hands of the performers and the dear people who flocked to the hall in crowds.

1854 September 16, Tom Muddie, “The Benefit Levee”, in The Quincy Patriot

His fundamental thought, then, is, that voluptuousness is the origin and seat of sin; the woman its originatrix, from the pleasure she first gave and experienced in it.

1862, John J[oseph] I[gnaz] Döllinger, translated by N[icholas] Darnell, The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ: An Introduction to the History of Christianity, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, page 407

For instance, the Eugenie fashion of wearing the hair is not even so becoming to the sad, pensive sweetness of the face of the empress herself, the originatrix, as to the features of many of the ladies of her court, while many, who cannot support this style of wearing the hair, have resolutely rejected it.

[1862], The Handbook for Ladies’ Maids, and Guide to the Toilette, London: William Oliver & Co., […], page 58

The originator, or rather originatrix, of this valuable institution was the Empress Josephine, who in 1805 devoted a fund for the purpose of subsidising a house which should provide an honorable and attractive retreat for persons of the higher class fallen into comparative poverty—pauvres honteux, as they are untranslatably termed—but principally those who had held unpensioned offices in the civil ser- vice of the country, comprising, therefore, members of the haute bourgeoisie and of the noblesse.

1876 July, [Julia Clara Byrne], “Sainte Perine, or The City of the Gentle”, in W[alter] H[illiard] Bidwell, editor, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXIV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: E. R. Pelton, […], page 119, column 2

This is probably Toyo-uke-bime-no mikoto (Sublime Goddess of Plenteous Food), who shares with Amaterasu no ohongami (the Great Lord Heaven-shiner) the headship over the deities of Ise, and who, by a sort of fissiparous self-division, became Kukunochi-no-kami (originatrix of trees), and Kayana-hime-no-kami (originatrix of grasses).

1880, Fred[eric]k V[ictor] Dickins, “Description of Plates”, in Fugaku Hiyaku-kei or A Hundred Views of Fuji (Fusiyama), London: B. T. Batsford, […], page 11