Pl. -trixes. [a. L. fornicātrix, fem. of fornicātor.] = prec.
1586. Perth Session Rec., in C. Rogers, Soc. Life Scot. (1884), II. xii. 244. To shave the heads of fornicators and fornicatrixes.
1655. in Kirkton, Hist. Ch. Scot. (1817), 171, note. Ther being before the congregations for sins, one adulteress, one quadrilapse fornicatrix, 8-trilapse fornicatrix.
1768. The Life and Adventures of Sir Bartholomew Sapskull, II. 130. What Sir (exclaimed the old fornicatrix) has the impudent hussey left you her bastard to maintain?
