Word Meanings - RECTORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A governess; a rectrix. Drayton. 2. The wife of a rector. Thackeray.

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• RECTOR
  A clergyman in charge of a parish. 3. The head master of a public school. 4. 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
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• RECTORAL
  Pertaining to a rector or governor.
• RECTORIAL
  Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.
• RECTRIX
  One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird. (more info) 1. A governess; a rectoress.
• RECTORY
  1. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. 2. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
• RECTORATE
  The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
• GOVERNESS
  A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
• RECTORESS
  1. A governess; a rectrix. Drayton. 2. The wife of a rector. Thackeray.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• PRORECTOR
  An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• SUBRECTOR
  An assistant restor.
• ERECTOR
  A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects.
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body