machinatrix

词形变化

machinatrices 复数 machinatrices

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A woman who machinates; a schemer, plotter.

    1902, Watson Bradshaw, "Medea", Act II., in The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, page 421. No; thou! thou art the sole machinatrix of all these terrible crimes, thou whose wickedness as a woman is supplemented with that masculine strength which has endowed thee with the audacity to perpetrate such deeds […]

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin māchinātrīx. By surface analysis, machinate + -trix.

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