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rectorate

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rec⋅tor⋅ate

  [rek-ter-it]
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–noun
the office, dignity, or term of a rector.
Also, rec⋅tor⋅ship.

Origin:
1715–25; < ML rēctōrātus office of rector, equiv. to L rēctōr- (s. of rēctor) rector + -ātus -ate 3
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rec·tor   (rěk'tər)   
n.   Abbr. R.

  1. A cleric in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

  2. An Anglican cleric who has charge of a parish and owns the tithes from it.

  3. A Roman Catholic priest appointed to be managerial as well as spiritual head of a church or other institution, such as a seminary or university.

  4. The principal of certain schools, colleges, and universities.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rēctor, director, from , rēctus past participle of regere, to rule; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
rec'tor·ate (-ĭt) n., rec·to'ri·al (rěk-tôr'ē-əl, -tōr'-) adj.
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