rectorial
- a word derived from rector.
Example Sentences
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This was during his rectorial address at the University of Aberdeen, and was the mature judgment of a great anthropologist, the 1927 president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always possessed of a fairly good opinion of himself, he had lately been raising his standard to the rectorial height; and, being very human, he had come to think himself something of a personage.
From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John
Without an atom of pomposity or air rectorial, he settled himself to listen.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
That he attained to literary pre-eminence in the various departments of his under graduate course, is fully evinced by his being twice dignified with the honour of filling the rectorial chair of that celebrated seminary.
From A Chronological Table of the Catholic Primates of Ireland With the Years in Which They Succeeded to the Metropolitan Sees of Armagh, Dublin, Cashell and Tuam by Murphy, John
The rectorial election had come and had gone, but another great event had taken its place.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
