formatrix means A formative faculty. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fōrmātrīx. By surface analysis, form + -ate + -trix.
noun
- A formative faculty.“By which laſt Obſervables, we ſee that there may be very pretty body ſhap’d and concreeted by Mechanical principles, without the leaſt ſhew or probability of any other ſeminal formatrix.”