formatrix

English

Noun

formatrix

  1. (obsolete) A formative faculty.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XX:
      [W]e see that there may be a very pretty body shap'd and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the least shew or probability of any other seminal formatrix.
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