Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The reverse of matrix; in calico-printing, the steel roller, or molette, on which a design is formed in relief and then transferred by pressure to the printing-roller of a cylinder printing-machine.
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My Political Blog by patrix on June 11, 2008 - 3: 47pm
Do you have to be a "political blogger" to be a blogger with political influence? Aarons, Morra 2008
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The printing type represents therefore a multiplicity of cast reproductions of the original die, or patrix.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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At this rate, I ... should prob be spending more time blogging for theage. com.au and its 300,000 daily readers. patrix: Blogging question - link posts as a daily summary or individual links throughout the day? typicalben: I'm gonna blog today, tomorrow and everyday!
Top Blog 2010
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So I see no reason for them to offer Black Friday deals patrix Love how Apple reacts to Black Friday.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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They've been gun-battling it for almost an entire day now! patrix Well, the usual of course!
The VultureKraft 2008
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Adeo nihil tenct iblum pattiz, nec hacc tena quam mancm appcllamus; fcd in fupcifi. de tignifque catitas nobis patrix pcndet \ Eqiu -
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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Mon podet patrix, nec deddeto, adquemmodum fez mihi alendus ilt, difceie.
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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Non fine refenfu vidimus et hodie in confpedum noftrum produci ori - ginates ipfius Budenfis Librorum Reviforis literaSj quibus idem difertis verbis fatetuf, fe orationem unius ex prxftantiflimis patrix noflrx civibus et Titeratis, ** ob unum al - terumve epifodion, quo in patriam laudefyue JOSEFI Imperatoris digreditur orator, "
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797
qms commented on the word patrix
The print roller, Eve, is the matrix,
But note the paternalist basics:
The pattern's true source,
Its "Adam," of course,
Is naturally thought of as patrix.
April 8, 2017