Citations:agitatrix


 * 1) A female agitator.
 * 2) * 1856, The Freewill Baptist Quarterly, page 91:
 * To indicate sex, e.g., the form servus indicates the male sex, and to denote the female sex the word is changed to serva; and so also with the forms deus and dea, dominus and domina, Julius and Julia, actor and actrix, agitator and agitatrix, adnepos and adneptis, rex and regini.
 * 1) * 1971, Robert Anthony Bromley, A Philosophical and Critical History of the Fine Arts, pages 264–265:
 * When Diana of Epheſus was repreſented in a car drawn by two oxen, whence ſhe gained the name of “ agitatrix”, the aſsurance we have that ſhe was conſidered as the moon, and cloſeneſs of thoſe ſymbols to the nocturnal ſun, give us that part of the eaſtern theology again.
 * ‘What a lovely word! Aye, that’s me, Red Kate Barnes.’
 * ‘Are you going to the meeting?’
 * ‘Aye, but how did you hear of it?’
 * ‘Some of the men were shouting about it just now,…’
 * Were you suprised that your article on the English aristocracy caused such a to-do? I was not. I have long revered you as an agitator — agitatrix,…
 * ‘Aye, but how did you hear of it?’
 * ‘Some of the men were shouting about it just now,…’
 * Were you suprised that your article on the English aristocracy caused such a to-do? I was not. I have long revered you as an agitator — agitatrix,…
 * Were you suprised that your article on the English aristocracy caused such a to-do? I was not. I have long revered you as an agitator — agitatrix,…