Word Meanings - RECTORAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a rector or governor.

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• RECTOR
  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
• RECTORSHIP
  1. Government; guidance. "The rectorship of judgment." Shak. 2. The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
• RECTORAL
  Pertaining to a rector or governor.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• RECTORIAL
  Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RECTORY
  1. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. 2. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
• GOVERNOR
  A pilot; a steersman. (more info) gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See 1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of
• RECTORATE
  The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
• RECTORESS
  1. A governess; a rectrix. Drayton. 2. The wife of a rector. Thackeray.
• GOVERNOR GENERAL
  A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• RELAY GOVERNOR
  A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle.
• PRORECTOR
  An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• SUBGOVERNOR
  A subordinate or assistant governor.