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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB think ▪ Over my dead body, thought the rector , who loved the diminutive stone building that the parish had erected in 1879. ▪ He looked handsome in his uniform, thought the rector . ▪ I declare, thought the rector . ...
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Rector is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Rector , professor of medical informatics Anne Elizabeth Rector , American artist and author Edward F. Rector , United States Air Force Enoch J. Rector , American boxing film promoter Giovanni ...
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n. In the Anglican church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
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n. a person authorized to conduct religious worship [syn: curate , minister , parson , pastor ]
Usage examples of rector.
And Brat, who had no love for the Cloth, found himself liking the Rector.
The Rector had meant to put the whisky in the tea, as a toddy, but he poured a stiff one now and Brat drank it.
Only the Rector, Bee, Charles, Eleanor, and the firm of Cosset, Thring and Noble knew, so far, that Brat was not Patrick Ashby.
When he was twenty-one years old his money was to come into his own hands, and the best thing he could do with it would be to buy the next presentation to a living, the rector of which was now old, and live on his mastership or tutorship till the living fell in.
A letter from the rector since had warned him that they were full of enthusiasm about his sermon and himself and that a call to the rectorship of the church was imminent.
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought.
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes saw, too, that her eyes were closed, her lips parted.
Tea at Worsted Skeynes was served in the hall on Sundays, and was usually attended by the Rector and his wife.
Bee and Cecil Tharp into the conservatory, and left the two men together: CHAPTER II CONTINUED INFLUENCE OF THE REVEREND HUSSELL BARTER To understand and sympathise with the feelings and action of the Rector of Worsted Skeynes, one must consider his origin and the circumstances of his life.
Just as round the hereditary principle are grouped the State, the Church, Law, and Philanthropy, so round the dining-table at Worsted Skeynes sat the Squire, the Rector, Mr.
His manner had nothing uneasy or dogged about it, like that of many poor rectors whose existence or whose power is contested by their parishioners, and who instead of being, as Napoleon sublimely said, the moral leaders of the population and the natural justices of peace, are treated as enemies.
Now this vestryman is probably telling everybody how the rector pokes fun of this poor miserable Happy Beans.
No one imagined he had forgotten the attitude the rector of the University of Cordova had assumed towards his consecration, and still the Bishop seemed to show more favour to the Jesuits in Asuncion than to the members of the other religious communities.
Just as Clara Gazul is the female pseudonym of a distinguished male writer, George Sand the masculine pseudonym of a woman of genius, so Camille Maupin was the mask behind which was long hidden a charming young woman, very well-born, a Breton, named Felicite des Touches, the person who was now causing such lively anxiety to the Baronne du Guenic and the excellent rector of Guerande.
At that time the Bishop Count of Beauvais was Pierre Cauchon of Reims, a great and pompous clerk of the University of Paris, which had elected him rector in 1403.