Obs. [a. L. tūtrix, fem. of tūtor TUTOR. Cf. prec. and TUTRESS, TUTORESS.] A female tutor. a. A female guardian. b. An instructress, a governess. rare.
1515. in Archæologia, XLVII. 303. Suffre me as tutrix of the yong king.
1546. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 50. Tutrix testamentar to hir barnes and said umquhile Hew.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 97. By the ciuill lawe a woman (the mother and grand-mother excepted) can not bee assigned tutrix.
1652. W. Hartley, Infant-Baptism, 10. Those pupils she became tutrix to.
1659. A. Hay, Diary (S.H.S., 1901), 209. That the Lady subscryve her renunciation … in her name as tutrix.
1680. Dalgarno, Deaf & Dumb Man’s Tutor, v. 49. A pratling Nurse is a better Tutrix to her foster-child.
1702–3. in Tindal, trans. Rapin’s Hist. Eng. (1745), IV. XXVI. 596/1. A Tutrix or Regent, during the minority of her supposed brother.
Hence † Tutrixship, the office of tutrix. Obs. rare–1.
1520. Q. Margaret, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 276. The recoveryng of my … Tutrixship of the Kyng my Soon.
