rector
noun
a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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
Without an atom of pomposity or air rectorial, he settled himself to listen.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald
Under rectorial pressure the villagers followed suit; and for half a century Warbleton was, in the names of its parishioners, a complete exegesis of justification by faith without the deeds of the law.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley
Tait used to get greatly excited over the rectorial elections, and, if he could have disguised himself, would have liked, I think, to join in the fight round the Brewster statue.
From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The pruning is the mythic expression of the subduing of passion by rectorial law.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
