effectress

Example Sentences

• "Chapter XXI (The Birth or Originall of Forms), section 64 (From Whence the Fruitfulness of Mineralls Is), page 143: So indeed, that although that ſplendor be ſtirred up by the force of nature alone (as putrified Woods, things ſalted, and the Sea it ſelf do teach) yet it is never made vitall but by the Creator, the ſpecifical form of a certain light being added to it, the effectreſs of a thinglineſs or eſſence: […] Chapter LXII (A Disease Is an Unknown Guest), section 57 (The Consequent upon a Confounding of the Cause with the Symptome), page 496:"
• "[W]hen any Object by daily uſe obtains a Similitude, or Equality with the Spirits, that is leſs apt to move thme: therefore that the Activity, or the lively unfolding of the Spirits (which is the Effectreſs of Pleaſure) may be continued a long time, leaving the Fruition of every old and worn-out Good, it always tends to new and more high things: […]"
• "Ἐργάτις an effectress. μνήμην ἁπάντων ἐργάτιν P.V. 459."
• "R. 53ᵉ. To adore the sun of the world, is to acknowledge . . . Own prudence as the effectress of all things."
• "While few iron crosses are distributed in newspaper offices, mainly because the office people are too busy chronicling other people’s heroism to advertise themselves, we pause to pay tribute to the daring and courage of the Ohio State Journal “Round About Ohio” man who calls a young lady a “basque-effectress.”"