Obs. Also 5 victrych, 6 -yce, victris. [a. OF. victrice or L. victrīc-, victrix: see next.] = prec.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VI. 421. O Elflede myȝti, O mayde mennene drede; victrice of kynd, wel worþy þy name.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 85. He wyl now defendyn me, And of al thi serpentys me victrych make.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxxxv. 63. Empryce of pryss,… Victryce of wyce, hie genetrice Of Jhesu.
1533. Anne Boleyn’s Coronat., in Furniv., Ballads fr. MSS. (1868), I. 399. He knewe, certes, that you, victrice, of all ladies Should haue the price of worthynes.
1567. Drant, Horace, Ep., x. D viij. The victris hath a swifte recourse by stealth unto her place.
1633[?]. B. Jonson, Underwoodes, Lady V. Digby, ix. 96. And, in her hand With boughs of Palme, [to have] a crowned Victrice stand.
