rectorate

American  

[rek-ter-it] / ˈrɛk tər ɪt /

Or rectorship

noun

1. the office, dignity, or term of a rector.

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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

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

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)

Of the northern district the new rectorate of San Francisco Xavier was now formed.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene