I.she who puts small value upon a thing, a despiser, contemner (rare; not in Cic.): mea, * Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 2: superūm propago, * Ov. M. 1, 161.—
II. Of inanimate and abstract subjects: “contemptrix frigorum eruca,” Plin. 19, 8, 44, § 154; 37, 4, 15, § 59: “fortitudo contemptrix timendorum est,” Sen. Ep. 88, 29: “turba periculi,” Sil. 17, 411.