(n.) 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.
(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
(n.) The head master of a public school.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
(2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
(3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
(5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
(6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
(7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
(8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
(9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
(10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
(11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
(12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
(13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
(14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
(15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
(16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
(19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
(20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.
Rectorial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I mean into holy orders, into the rectory in Fulbourn.
(2) Michael Parroy QC, representing the Serious Fraud Office, also told the court on Tuesday that Hayes and his lawyer wife, Sarah Tighe, went through “various manoeuvres” to transfer the £1.7m Old Rectory in Surrey into her name and failed to inform the SFO as required.
(3) We're sitting in the front room of the Rectory at Fulbourn near Cambridge.
(4) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(5) In retrospect, the most noticeable absentees were Scottish university students – their idea of insurrection was limited then to throwing flour bombs at rectorial elections – and ambitious members of the Labour party.
(6) Upping and leaving Moorland a week ago when the waters inundated their historic rectory (which had never flooded before) was not an easy operation.
(7) Initially, she was brought up in the village rectory with her grandparents and her mother.
(8) McDonnell revealed during the trial that he is now separated from his wife and living in a rectory with a longtime priest friend.
(9) It’s been really tough,” said Bryony Sadler, mother of two young children, who has just moved back into her home, a former rectory that had never before flooded.
(10) What changed over the next year was a combination of greater public awareness of the problems that can accompany shale drilling, bullish government support for shale gas ( "we'll see how thick their rectory walls are and how they like flaring at the end of the drive" is how Tory energy minister Michael Fallon threatened middle England), and most of all the decision by Cuadrilla to make Balcombe – a small village in the leafy heart of the Sussex commuter belt – its next target.
(11) On the second day of the five-day confiscation of funds hearing, Parroy said Hayes and Tighe applied for a £325,000 interest-only mortgage on the Old Rectory in April 2013, more than a year after he was arrested in December 2011.
(12) When her father returned from the second world war, the family moved from the old rectory to a newly-built council house.
(13) By early 2013 Hayes’s legal bills in Britain and the US were rising fast and them couple tried to sell the Old Rectory before opting to take out a mortgage, Parroy said.
(14) Michael Fallon, energy minister, signalled his willingness to fight when he declared in a recent private meeting that middle England would have to put up with the impact, saying: "We're going to see how thick their rectory walls are … and whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive."
(15) Parroy said: “As far as one can see [there is] no information at this stage at all that this process is going on.” Parroy painted a picture of pressure mounting on Hayes and Tighe, who paid £1.2m in cash for the Old Rectory in summer 2011.
(16) As with the Old Rectory, they used cash from Hayes’s savings to buy the flat.
(17) When, in the wake of the UCS triumph, as he swept into the elected rectorship of Glasgow University, his rectorial address was printed in its entirety by the New York Times, which compared it favourably to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln.
(18) It’s been tough, really tough.” The government’s announcement on Tuesday that £15.5m will be spent on flood defences in Somerset in the next six years was welcomed by the likes of Sadler, who suffered the heartbreak of leaving her dream house – a former rectory that had never flooded before – with husband, two children, mother and numerous animals and pets in tow.
(19) He's a very English combination of self-effacement, drollery and dogmatism – a listed rectory in a suit and blue tie (unlike his more artistic brother, this paper's architecture critic, Rowan Moore).
(20) She called No 9 Coronation Street the Old Rectory and dreamed of retiring to a nice bungalow in Blackpool.