Definition of rector

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Rector (n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.

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Curate :: Curate (n.) One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar..
Rectoress :: Rectoress (n.) A governess; a rectrix.
Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..
Direction :: Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.
Capellmeister :: Capellmeister (n.) The musical director in royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master.
Rector :: Rector (n.) 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.
Correctory :: Correctory (a.) Containing or making correction; corrective.
Rectory :: Rectory (n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes..
Portionist :: Portionist (n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
Corrector :: Corrector (n.) One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids..
Rectoress :: Rectoress (n.) The wife of a rector.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator..
Erector :: Erector (n.) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted..
Rector :: Rector (n.) A ruler or governor.
Bishop :: Bishop (n.) A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director..
Rectress :: Rectress (n.) A rectoress.
Parson :: Parson (n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls..
Institutor :: Institutor (n.) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
Magnifico :: Magnifico (n.) A rector of a German university.
Polestar :: Polestar (n.) A guide or director.
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