[L., fem. of victor VICTOR.] A female victor; a victress.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 113. Before Nature is victrix in diseases.
1672. [Tuke] (title), Souls Warfare, Comically digested into Scenes Acted between the Soul and her Enemies, Wherein she cometh off Victrix.
1716–20. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 174. Carried away by the triumphant Victrix, who will be proud of the Conquest.
1779. G. Keate, Sketches fr. Nat. (ed. 2), II. 9. The victrix has it [a smock] slipped over her running dress, and marches off triumphant.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxxii. In his victrix he required all that was here visible.
1895. E. J. Dillon, in Contemp. Rev., Nov., 620. A war which, if Russia prove the victrix, will deliver Constantinople and the Balkan Peninsula into her hands.
