formatrix
English
Noun
formatrix
- (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.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XX: