Crossword clues for rectories
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rectory \Rec"to*ry\ (-t?*r?), n.; pl. Rectories (-r?z). [Cf. OF. rectorie or rectorerie, LL. rectoria.]
The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of rectory English)
Usage examples of "rectories".
We spent the nights at rectories and inns, sleeping beneath the sky only once.
There's usually a lot of conversation in inns, but rectories usually had a better ratio of fact to rumor.
But the County was slow to observe this, and something very like consternation was felt, not only in the Great Houses, but in the bungalows and the villas for miles about, while in the neighbouring rectories antiquarian clergymen devised folk-tales of the disasters that should come to crops and herds when there was no longer a Beste-Chetwynde at King's Thursday.
A massive, unexpected strike would engulf libraries and rectories and museums in flames, leveling them all to rubble.
It was a sign of the infamy and decadence of the age that not once but six times in the course of the past year, consecrated wafers had been stolen from churches and rectories in the City and See of Lyons.
He sent troops into villages that had become Protestant to drive out the Lutheran clergy, confiscate their rectories and any tithe grain they had in storage, re-program their churches to be Catholic, and generally pushed pretty hard.