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
John Stuart Mill's rectorial address to the St. Andrews students is remarkable.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke
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
The records, of Florence afford an illustration of the checks upon the rectorial power, to which we have referred in speaking of the typical Student-University at Bologna.
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
A good subject for a rectorial address would be the mess the Rector himself has made of life.
From Courage by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
