Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A quarrelsome woman; a common scold.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Examples
“A cure for communis rix & rixatrix, the common scold”
“After leaving North Carolina, Mrs. Royall sojourned in Washington City, where she engaged in writing vituperative books and edited a "Paul Pry" newspaper, so full of scandal that she was arraigned and convicted of the crime of being a common scold -- "communis rixatrix.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rixatrix’.
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Unsavory characters
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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I keep forgetting
Words I keep looking up and still keep forgetting the definition of
reify, phthisic, taghairm, makar, sciamachy, chevelure, smaragdine, vicinal, rixatrix, polynya, hamadryad, cloud-built
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Scold
scold, callet, callat, catamaran, rixatrix, bard, vixen, nagger, termagant, chider, lambaster, frabber and 9 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 49 more...
avivamagnolia
The crime of speaking her mind is punishable by public shaming. A crime called “Communis
Rixatrix�? (note the Latin feminine is used here as only women can be charged with this crime).
The translation of Communis Rixatrix is “the common scold.�?
According to Jacob’s Law Dictionary, a common scold is a “troublesome and angry woman, who,
by her brawling and wrangling amongst her neighbours, breaks the public peace.�?
The punishment for the speaking of one’s mind was to be publicly ducked, that is, to be placed on
a ‘ducking stool’ and plunged into a nearby body of cold water in the presence of her whole
community. The last time a woman was indicted as a common scold in the United States was in
1971.
A woman named Marion Dunlevy was arrested, fingerprinted, and indicted as a common scold
after engaging in an argument with two of her male neighbours over a parked car. The case was
thrown out but “Communis Rixatrix�? was still on the books in the United States in 1994
~University of Regina Lecture, Psychology of Women Class, Copyright of Shauna Born Jan 18, 2009
avivamagnolia ~a nasty, quarrelsome old woman, usually with a tendency to natter and scold Jan 18, 2009