Meaning of compositress | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of compositor.

dated, feminine, form-of

Examples

“Now beſides Sappho, we read⟳ of many others of that Sex famous for Learning, as Demophila the Pamphylian’s Wife whom Apollonius here mentions; Proba the Roman Conſul’s Wife, who (A. D. 424.) wrote in Heroick Verſe the Contents of the Old and New Teſtament, ſo far as the deſcending of the Holy Ghoſt; Corinna, who was Ovid’s Beloved; Elpia, the Wife of Boetius; Polla, Wife to Lucan the Poet, who often help’d her Husband in the compoſure of his Pharſalia; Lesbia, Miſtreſs to Catullus; Cornificia, the Roman Poeteſs; Thesbia, the Compoſitreſs of Epigrams; and the other famous Poeteſs Corinna, who five times vanquiſh’d Pindar in the Poetical Art, wherein he had challenged her to contend in the City of Thebes; neither muſt we here omit the late ingenious Mrs. Phillips, our Engliſh Sappho.”

“But if you want⟳ to hear⟳ the song free gratis, (perhaps you have⟳ never heard it!) call⟳ around at our office any day, at nearly any hour, and you can be accommodated. And it will be given in pretty good style, too, with piano accompaniment. Don’t imagine⟳, for a moment, that we will sing⟳ it for you, or allow⟳ any of our compositresses to. Oh, no; we couldn’t stand⟳ it so near as that; but mellowed down by the width of the street, we manage⟳ to endure it.”

“the pay⟳ of women in the government printing office is not excessive. The millionairesses among the female sex in that institution are to be found among the “compositresses,” for none of them make⟳ less than the regular men’s wages—$3.20 per diem—and some of them make⟳ a good deal⟳ more.”

“Miss⟳ [Ada C.] Malone was formerly an employess of the Mirror as compositress and was the champion type-setteress of the office.”

“The rig representing the Papilllon^([sic]) Times, which was decorated in white and trimmed in red was also in line, Miss⟳ Elsie Durkop, one of the compositresses in the Times office, making herself very popular by distributing neat Japanese fans during the parade.”

“Miss⟳ Dora Hunter, a compositress in The Gazette office, is passing a two-weeks vacation with relatives and friends in Fairfield and Highgate.”

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