procuratress

plural procuratresses

1. A female procurator.

   procuratrice procuratreſs or pr.’s lady

   1756, James Elphinston, The Analysis of the French and English Languages: With Their Roots and Idioms, London, page lxxxviii

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   So much may suffice for her person; there is something due to be said of her Practise, and to this part I must invite none but Mercuriallists and the Procuratresses of the Colledge of Venus, who have long desired and expected the Works and Memorialls of this Virago, as deserving a place in the Rationale and Account of Time, as well as Oliver, but farre beyond Prince Crispine and his Lady, and the rest of that Leud Rout, and band of Knight Errantry.

   1662, “To the Reader”, in The Life and Death of M^(rs.) Mary Frith. Commonly Called Mal Cutpurse. Exactly Collected and Now Published for the Delight and Recreation of All Merry Disposed Persons., London: […] W. Gilbertson; quoted in Janet Todd and Elizabeth Spearing, editors, Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith; The Case of Mary Carleton, 1994

   Consider fourthly, how here is verified the saying of the Psalme: Suscopimus Deus misericordiam tuam in medio templi tui: vve haue receiued thy mereie, ô God, in the middes of thy temple: for God the Father by the Priest, his publike Minister deliuered vs againe his onely Sonne from of the Altar of the Temple; vvhere the Virgin Mother as our procuratresse receiued him in our name before vvitnesses old Simeon, Ioseph, and the holy vvidow Anna;

   1663, Meditations Collected and Ordered for the Vse of the English Colledge of Lisbo by the Svperiovrs of the Same Colledge, Doway: By Baltazar Bellere, page 155

   The first Grate Sister Sʳ Constantia Massy who dyd in yᵉ Octʳ following, & was by Rᵈ Father Crosse’s orders succeeded in office by Victoria Fortescue. first Ms of yᵉ schoole Sʳ Mary Catharine, Whence it is to be observed yᵗ in this Election were yᵉ offices of Grate Sister & Procuratresses instituted.

   1674, Catholic Record Society Publications: Records Series, published 1922, page 42

   The wily procuratress, on several pretences, declined answering the question;

   1820, James Hogg, “Welldean Hall”, in Winter Evening Tales, Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of Scotland, volume II, New York, N.Y.: […] Kirk and Mercein, Wiley and Halsted, W. B. Gilley, and Haly and Thomas. C.S. Van Winkle, […], page 206

   A carriage is overturned in a stony road, near the little town of Gondrecourt. It must be set to rights; but there is much to do, and few to do it, and consequently the delay will be long. Besides, there is no accommodation in the place; the judge, the curate, the bailiff and bailiff-ess, the procuratress-fiscal, and in fact all the best company, being in the country.

   1858 April, “The French Annuals”, in Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, number 70, page 651

   Synonyms: procuratrix