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Word Meanings - RECTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.

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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.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

 

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