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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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
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
His rectorate," says Claretta, "was the golden age of the Abbey of La Chiusa, which reaped the glory acquired by its head in the difficult negotiations entrusted to him by his princes.
From Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Butler, Samuel
At the head of a German university stands the rector, or more commonly, the prorector, since the rectorate is generally retained by the sovereign princes in their own hands, as is the case in Baden.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
The Mayo and Yaqui valleys were now made a separate rectorate.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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