Citations:invigilatrix

English citations of invigilatrix

• 1911 January 7, Andrew Lang, “At the Sign of St. Paul’s: Andrew Lang on Scott and Golf, Ghosts, and Literary Examinations”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CXXXVIII, number 3742, London: [T]he Illustrated London News and Sketch, Limited, page 16, column 3:

  A History paper was lately set, at a girls’ school, on a certain period of English history—say the Reformation. One question was: “Mention the person in your period who interests you most, and give your reasons.” During the examination some female præpostor or other subaltern was sitting with the girls, some of whom asked, “Does ‘your period’ mean our period?” “Yes,” said the invigilatrix, if that is the word for the fair looker-on.

• 1917, John Brynildsen, Norsk–Engelsk Ordbog, H. Aschehoug & Company (second edition), page 391:

  […] inſpek|tørat n -er inspector|ate, -ship; univ proctorship; -trice -r inspectress; visitress; v. examen: invigilatrix; […]

• 1986, Stanisław Lem, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, Harcourt Brace (second edition), →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 152:

  Where before they had chortled, “The ladies! Oo-la-la!” now it was “Frivolitas in duo corpore, Venus Invigilatrix,” and more of the same.

• 1987, Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God, Vintage Books (2012 reprint), →ISBN, page 145:

  I was fired into vigorous writing by sexual bitterness. For our invigilatrix was my WEA widow, earning a little daytime money by giving out the papers and watching for cheaters. She shot me no glance of sexual complicity as I came in.

• 1998 December 31st, “J. H. McCloskey” (username), “The Manhattan Snake-Oil Solution” in alt.impeach.clinton, Usenet:

  “Aunt Nitsy” (that is to say, our esteemed National Invigilatrix, the New York Times Company, NYTC, ventriloquizing an unsigned editorial) writes on 31 December 1998: […]