Also 8 czarissa. [a. Russ. царица (= tsari·tsa), fem. of tsari.] The Russian title for which czarina is in ordinary English use. (The Russian official title is now имприца impritsa, empress.)
1698. J. Crull, Muscovy, 187. The Dress of the Czaritza or Empress is little different from other Women.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5268/7. The Czarissa, his Czarian Majesty’s Consort, was brought to Bed of a Princess.
1890. Morfill, Russia, 183. The Tsaritsa Eudoxia, the first wife of Peter the Great.
