RECTOR
\ɹˈɛktə], \ɹˈɛktə], \ɹ_ˈɛ_k_t_ə]\
Definitions of RECTOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A ruler or governor.
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A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
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A clergyman in charge of a parish.
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The head master of a public school.
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The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
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The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
By Oddity Software
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A ruler or governor.
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A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
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A clergyman in charge of a parish.
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The head master of a public school.
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The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
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The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
By Noah Webster.
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In the Episcopal Church, a clergyman in charge of a parish; in Scotland and, sometimes, in England, the head of a public school or university.
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Rectorate, rectorship.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A ruler; governor;—a clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish; a pastor;—parson of a parish in which the tithes are not impropriate;—the head master of a public school;- the chief elective officer of some universities;-the superior or chief of a convent or religious house.
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