Spectatrix

[a. L. spectātrix, fem. of spectātor. Cf. F. spectatrice, It. spettatrice.] = SPECTATRESS.

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1611. Cotgr., Spectatrice, a spectatrix.

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1615. W. Hull, Mirr. Maiestie, 88. She (good soule) stood by the crosse as a dolefull spectatrix of that wofull Tragedy.

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1651. Howell, Venice, 4. She [Venice] hath allwayes … chosen rather to be a Spectatrix or Umpresse, than a Gamestresse.

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c. 1710. Celia Fiennes, Diary (1888), 15. Y^e discription of the Coronation … w^ch I recieved y^e relation off from a spectatrix.

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1781. Earl Malmesbury, Diaries & Corr., I. 390. The Dutch Ambassadors … are leaving nothing untried to prevent Her Imperial Majesty from remaining spectatrix of their quarrel.

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1860. Mrs. A. Clive, Why P. Ferrall, x. 263–4. Real tears came into Laura’s eyes, as though she had been spectatrix of the same scene at a play.

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1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met., 264. Spectatrix of this cruel fate was I.

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