mediatrix

Definitions

1. A female mediator.
2. A bisector, the line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
   rare

Examples

“My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end⟳, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend⟳, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.”

“He promised, however, to speak⟳ to Mr. Harrel upon the subject, but the promise⟳ was evidently given to oblige the fair mediatrix, without any hope⟳ of advantage to the cause.”

“[…] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]”

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