
1) Anglican priest 2) Catholic ecclesiastic 3) Church or college official 4) Clergyman 5) Clergyman or college bigwig 6) Clerical leader 7) Curate 8) Episcopal cleric 9) Episcopal parson 10) Gubernatorial title 11) Head of a university 12) Head of some schools 13) Latin surname 14) Man of the cloth
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1) Cleric 2) Curate 3) Director 4) Minister 5) Parson 6) Pastor
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Latin, meaning: guider, leader, director, ruler, master
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[Edinburgh University] Topographical Map of Water Street Narrows from: The geology of Huntingdon county. By Israel Charles White, Edward Vincent D`Invilliers, A. L. Ewing, Harrisburg, PA, 1885 Available at: http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC05722477 ...
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[academia] A rector (`ruler`, from the Latin regere and rector meaning `ruler` in Latin) in the sphere of academia is the highest academic official of many universities and in certain other institutions of higher education, as well as even in some secondary-level schools. The term and office of a rector are called a rectorate. The title is ...
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[ecclesiastical] A rector in the widest ecclesiastical sense, is `one who sets straight, guides, directs; a ruler, governor, director, guide, leader,` from the Latin verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum, `to set straight, guide, direct`. A female equivalent is rectoress, and the term and office of a rector are a rectorate. The Latin adjective re...
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[politics] Rectors and rectorates in politics and administration included: == Roman == Rector provinciae was the Latin generic term for Roman governor, the governor of a Roman province, known after the time of Suetonius, and specifically a legal term (as used in the Codices of the Emperors Theodosius I and Justinian I) after Emperor Dioclet...
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• (n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar. • (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish. • (n.) The head master of a public school. • (n.) A ruler or governor. • (n.) The superior officer or chief...
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Anglican priest, formerly entitled to the whole of the
tithes levied in the parish, as opposed to a vicar (Latin `deputy`) who was only entitled to part. In the Episcopal Church, the rector is a...
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A rector is a priest which is appointed by a parish that is wealthy enough to pay for their own priest. (compare vicar].
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1. A ruler or governor. 'God is the supreme rector of the world.' (Sir M. Hale) ... 2. A clergyman in charge of a parish. ... 3. The head master of a public school. ... 4. The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford. ...
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Rec'tor noun [ Latin , from regere , rectum , to lead straight, to rule: confer French recteur . See Regiment , Right .] 1. A ruler or governor. [ R.] « God is the supreme rector of the world.» Sir M. Hale. 2. (a)
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There were two main types of rector, a clerical rector and a lay rector. A clerical rector
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A rector is usually the incumbent of a parish church in England, but the title is sometimes also given to the head of a college or school. A rector used to differ from a vicar in his taking the great tithes - such as corn, hay and wood, while the vicar took the small tithes, such as hops and potatoes.
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Rector is a cultivated variety of potato.
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an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.
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Anglican priest, formerly entitled to the whole of the tithes levied in the parish, as opposed to a vicar (Latin `deputy`) who was only entitled to part. In the Episcopal Church, the rector is a member of the clergy who is in charge of a parish
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