communicatrix

English

Noun

communicatrix (plural communicatrices or communicatrixes)

1. (rare) A female communicator.
   • 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:

     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).

   • 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:

     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).

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

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

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

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

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

     ‘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. […]’

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

     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.

   • 2008, Ilise Benun, Peleg Top, “Which Marketing Tools Should I Use?”, in The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing: How to Win Clients and What to Charge Them, Cincinnati, Ohio: How Books, →ISBN, section “Online Presence”, page 111:

     Colleen Wainwright, aka “the communicatrix” and a designer who blogs, says, “Blogs are conversations, not ads. […]”