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Matron
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MATRON. A married woman, generally an elderly married woman.
     2. By the laws of England, when a widow feigns herself with child, in order to exclude the next heir, and a suppositious birth is expected, then, upon the writ de ventre inspiciendo, a jury of women is to be, impanelled to try the question, whether with child or not. Cro, Eliz. 566. So when a woman was sentenced to death, and she declared herself to be quick with child, a jury of matrons is impanelled to try whether she be or be not with child. 4 Bl. Com. 395. See Pregnancy; Quick with child.



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Attention is paid both to women's participation in goddess worship (Artemis, Hera, Demeter) and to the worship of male gods like Adonis and Dionysius, as well as Roman matronal rites and such syncretist cults as that of Isis.
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