Doctrix
Origin
From , female form of doctor. The "female doctor" sense is from the English doctor (which is from the Latin doctor) medical sense, analyzed as a female form to the English word.
Full definition of doctrix
Noun
doctrix
(plural not attested)- A female doctor.
- 1845 , Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745: John Erskine, Earl of Mar. James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater. The Master of Sinclair. Cameron of Lochiel
- 1875
- 1878
- 1885 , Old Church life in Scotland, lectures
- A female teacher.
- 1603 , A Treatise of Three Conversions
- 1735 , The Occaſional Tinclarian, in a Letter to Sir John de Graham, Knight of the Thistle
- 1885
- 1904 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
- 1907
- 1914 , The Family of Inglis of Auchindinny and Redhall
- 1948 , The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century: A Century of Scottish Domestic and Social Life