rectress
English
Etymology
Noun
rectress (plural rectresses)
- Alternative form of rectoress.
- 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Rectress of action, arbitress of fate
References
- “rectress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.