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Definition of Inventress
1. n. A woman who invents.
Definition of Inventress
1. Noun. (context: often pejorative) A female inventor ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inventress
1. [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Inventress
1. A woman who invents. Origin: Cf. L. Inventrix, F. Inventrice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventress
Literary usage of Inventress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"t»S^"^'»;0 i. Persuaded of some communication with tlie Deity. At last divine
C.cilia came, inventress of the vocal frame; ..."
2. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"At last divine Cecilia came, inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast,
from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length ..."
3. Journal of a Few Months' Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of by Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan, Edmund Lee (1895)
"So tripped the Muse, inventress of the dance; So, truant in waste woods, the
blithe Euphrosyne ! But the ringlets of that head Why are they ..."
4. Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Henry B. Humphrey, Esq: To be Sold by by Henry B. Humphrey, Laurence Rhoades (1871)
"This edition con tains portrait of " Mrs. Dorothy Spreadbury, inventress of the
Oxford Sausage." This famous jeu d'esprit has been attributed to Wart on. ..."
5. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"... inventress, in-ven'tres.ta female that invents Inverse, !n-verse'. a.
inverted [or time Inversion, in-ver'shun. *. change of order Invert, ln-vert', ..."
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