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- English Word Rector Definition A ruler or governor.
- English Word Rector Definition 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.
- English Word Rector Definition A clergyman in charge of a parish.
- English Word Rector Definition The head master of a public school.
- English Word Rector Definition 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.
- English Word Rector Definition The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
- English Word Rectoral Definition Pertaining to a rector or governor.
- English Word Rectorate Definition The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.
- English Word Rectoress Definition A governess; a rectrix.
- English Word Rectoress Definition The wife of a rector.
- English Word Rectorial Definition Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral.
- English Word Rectories Definition of Rectory
- English Word Rectorship Definition Government; guidance.
- English Word Rectorship Definition The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
- English Word Rectory Definition The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
- English Word Rectory Definition A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
- English Word Rectovaginal Definition Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.
- English Word Rectress Definition A rectoress.
- English Word Rectrices Definition of Rectrix
- English Word Rectrix Definition A governess; a rectoress.
- English Word Rectrix Definition One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
- English Word Rectum Definition The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
- English Word Rectus Definition A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
- English Word Recubation Definition Recumbence.
- English Word Recule Definition To recoil.
- English Word Recule Definition Alt. of Reculement
- English Word Reculement Definition Recoil.
- English Word Recumb Definition To lean; to recline; to repose.
- English Word Recumbence Definition The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent.
- English Word Recumbency Definition Recumbence.