matrician

A female patrician; an upper class matriarch

In the present state of society we need not go far to find many a man who would give all the waltzes and polkas that a matrician genius ever invented, and throw all the new-fangled flourishes upon piano and guitar into the bargain, for healthful breakfasts [...]

Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"

A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor

The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.

However, the household was controlled by its senior women; because of the residence pattern, the men were unrelated outsiders who belonged to different matricians.

Upper class and matriarchal

Forfend that her stern shade ever resent a comparison with such frail creatures ! She carries the historic ' prowde countenance of the Geraldines ' of her day. Aristocratic, matrician, and placid, though deeply traced with sorrow

Her father is a successful businessman and her rather forceful mother a philosophy don; and Florence's life in a matrician and intellectual North Oxford household - you feel sure it's in one of those substantial brick crescents next to the Parks - is vivid in its intricate particularity.

A mathematician who studies matrices

It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays.

The study of the pencil is helpful not only to matricians for a more efficient calculation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, but also to control theorists for the analysis and design of their control systems.