Citations:autocratrix

English citations of autocratrix

1. A female autocrat.
   • 1775, Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), The Britiſh Chronologiſt: Comprehending Every Material Occurrence, Eccleſiaſtical, Civil, or Military, Relative to England and Wales, from the Invaſion of the Romans to the Present Time: Interſperſed with Proceſsions at Coronations, Inſtalments of the Military Honours, Marriages, Funerals of Sovereigns, &c. &c., volume 2, page 264:

     The princeſs Elizabeth, touched with ſo much zeal, accepted the crown, and was ſaluted by the ſtates in quality of empreſs and autocratrix of all the Ruſsias.

   • 1791, Horace Walpole, Letter to the Miss Berrys (Berkeley Square, Sunday, March 27, 1791):

     Oh! now are you all impatience to hear that message; I am sorry to say that I fear it is to be a warlike one. The Autocratrix swears, d—n her eyes! she will hack her way to Constantinople through the blood of one hundred thousand more Turks, and that we are very impertinent for sending her a card with a sprig of olive.

   • 1797, Ralph Griffiths, The Monthly Review, page 540:

     Not content with having made herself, in the literal sense, autocratrix and sovereign, Peter must new feel the whole force of her vengeance, and the malice of her followers: not content with having hurled him from the throne, she cast him into an infamous prison appointed for the vilest criminals; and, as if this was not enough, she made him drink to the very dregs the cup of death, presented to him by the hand of wickedness.

   • 1798, John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 89:

     Catherine II. to the qualities which they poſseſsed, ſuperadded ſuch as have rendered her rather the creatreſs, than the autocratrix of her empire.

   • 1811, David Hume, The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution in 1688, pages 189–190:

     Catharine, it was said, was about to he crowned empress of Taurida, and to be declared protectress or autocratrix of the nations of Tartars.^c

   • 1831, Thomas Hope, Anastasius: Or, Memoirs of a Greek, page 392:

     This project the autocratrix of all the Russias failed not to resume, as soon as she saw Ibrahim and Mourad in firm possession of the supreme authority.

   • 1837, Thomas Dibdin, The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, of the Theatres Royal, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Haymarket, &c. and Author of the Cabinet, &c., volume 1, page 78:

     Extraordinary partiality of my landlady’s daughter, not to me, but a very different object — Financial arrangements of a Theatrical Joint Stock Company — I commence author, and, as Theodore Hook would say, “do a bit of artist” — Russell’s magnificent benefit — Preparations for my own night — Young Jerrold and I take a night trip to Brighton, to visit my mother, and fetch Werter — Army of smugglers — Benefit, genteel, but not profitable — Fracas in the theatre — New engagement — Departure from Eastbourne, and reception from Mrs. Baker, governess-general and sole autocratrix of the Kentish drama — Account of herself, family, and theatrical company.

   • 1838, Henry Peter Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests; with Historical Introductions, and a Critical Dissertation upon the Eloquence of the Ancients, pages 658–659:

     “Faithful to these principles,” (continued this half-sermon, half-romance, and half-state-paper) “they will only study the happiness of their people, the progress of the peaceful arts, and attend carefully to the interests of morality and religion, of late years unhappily too much neglected” — here, again, following the example of the Autocratrix Catherine — the spoiler of Poland, — who, having wasted and pillaged it, province after province, poured in hordes of her barbarians, which hewed their way to the capital through myriads of Poles, and there, for one whole day, from the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof, butchered its unoffending inhabitants, unarmed men, and women, and infants; and not content with this work of undistinguishing slaughter, after the pause of the night had given time for cooling, rose on the morrow, and renewed the carnage, and continued it throughout that endless day; and after this, a Te Deum was sung, to return thanks for her success over the enemies, that is, the natives, of Poland.

   • 1841, John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, page 122:

     Benson says he is for making Mrs. Adams Autocratrix of the United States. This, however, must be secret, because it is a sort of treason.

     Tenderly yours,

     J.A.

   • 1855, Walter Keating Kelly, The history of Russia, from the earliest period to the present time. Compiled from the most authentic sources, including the works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Ségur, page 127:

     No sooner was that prince at the foot of the throne of the autocratrix of the north, than the states of Courland held an assembly, wherein it was proposed to put the country under the supremacy of Russia.

   • 1878, Massachusetts Historical Society from the John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress), Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726–1800, page 455:

     If your modesty was a little more consistent, you would have spared the recital of what you say you have met with in some “Scandalous Chronicle”, confirmed by some great lady, relative to the weaknesses of the Grand Autocratrix.

   • 1904, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians’ History of the World, page 365:

     His defection constrained the rest of the conspirators: there was no more heard of a regency; and Catherine was to be proclaimed autocratrix of all the Russias.

   • 1967, Fred L. Israel, Major Peace Treaties of Modern History, 1648–1967, page 897:

     THE GOOD OFFICES employed to smooth over the disputes that arose between Her Most Serene and Powerful Highness Princess Anne, Autocratrix of the Russians, and the Sublime Porte […]

   • 1999, Hester Lynch Piozzi Bloom, The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784–1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale): Volume 5, 1811–1816, page 289:

     Meanwhile the Emperor deserved much of the Bustle we made about him. When a child it seems, his Grandmother Katherine the great Autocratrix, took an English Boy out of a Merchant’s compting house at Petersburgh; and put him about the young Czar as a Playfellow and to teach him our Language: — when she had done with him⁶ — he was sent off of course, and Alexander confessed that his Companion was forgotten.

   • 2005, Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley, Shakespeare’s Heroines, page 400:

     I was struck with a sensation which made my heart pause, and rendered me dumb for some minutes; and when I was led into conversation with her, my first words came faltering and thick, — which never certainly would have been the case in presence of the autocratrix of all the Russias.