rectorate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rectorate
1715–25; < Medieval Latin rēctōrātus office of rector, equivalent to Latin rēctōr- (stem of rēctor ) rector + -ātus -ate 3
Example Sentences
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Last January, when Johannes Mathias Gijsen, 39, was named to the see from the rectorate of an old-folks home, hardly anyone knew who he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appleton Lawrence got his first cure in 1913, as assistant in Grace Church in Lawrence, Mass., where his forebears had owned mills and where his father held his first and only rectorate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mayo and Yaqui valleys were now made a separate rectorate.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
Now Leonard had found occasion to go West for a time, though he still held his office; and Arthur was filling the rectorate almost in the old first way.
From Bylow Hill by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
In the spring of 1877, during the rectorate of Reverend E. C. Murdaugh at St. George’s Church, questions arose as to certain forms of the Episcopal ritual.
From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by Goolrick, John T.
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