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fundatrix

fundatrix [cf. 1 fundator] , foundress, benefactress. b (dist. as prima ~x) original foundress. 1243 (v. dotatrix 1); dum tamen mulieres per claustrum et dormitorium ‥ intrare non permittantur, nisi ~x, uxor aut filia vel uxor filii fundatoris, existarent Meaux III 36; 1502 devote ‥ dicere hunc psalmum ‘Deus misereatur nostri’ cum speciali collecta pro bono statu nostro [? supply et] ~ce lecture predicte StatOx 306; 1535 pro manutencione xxv cerearum quolibet die per totum annum ardencium circa sepulturam domine Elie Longespe, ~cis monasterii de Lacok Val. Eccl. II 117a.  b turbamque virginum prima ~x inibi religiosissimam ordinavit Elmh. Cant. 215.

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