Word Meanings - RECTORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.

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• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• 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
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• 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.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• STATIONER
  1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. 2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
• OFFICE WIRE
  Copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
• STATION
  The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (more info) 1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at
• RECTORIAL
  Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.
• 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.
• STATIONERY
  Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
• OFFICER
  1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall. 2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
• OFFICE
  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which a person does, either
• RECTORATE
  The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
• RECTORESS
  1. A governess; a rectrix. Drayton. 2. The wife of a rector. Thackeray.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• BOOKING OFFICE
  1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. 2. An office where passage tickets are sold.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• INTERBASTATION
  Patchwork. Dr. J. Smith.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• PROTESTATION
  Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial. (more info) 1.