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rectory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from French rectorie (14c.) or Medieval Latin rectoria, from rector (see rector). Originally "benefice held by a rector;" of his residence, from 1849.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The residence of Roman Catholic priest(s) associated with a parish church. 2 The residence of an Anglican rector.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Rectory on the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands is a rare example of transitional Spanish-Japanese architecture in the archipelago, now a United States commonwealth. It was built about 1930, during the South Pacific Mandate period of Japanese administration, when the native Chamorro people were displaced to this area by workers imported by the Japanese to work in the sugar fields. The rectory is an L-shaped concrete structure measuring , and originally had a wood-framed second floor and roof. Although only the concrete frame remains, elements such as its massive steps and window placement are typical of the earlier Spanish period, while decorative elements such as its porch columns and window opening details are distinctly Japanese.
The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
Usage examples of "rectory".
The ka-tet ambled back toward the rectory, riding four abreast, feeling every town eye that watched them go: death on horseback.
The ground receded until the rectory garden was reached, and the hill was guarded on either flank by a thick growth of pines and cedars, and, being a part of the land appertaining to the rectory, was never invaded by the village children.
Bradley added that she had also read the story of Borley Rectory, and that some of the features of the haunted house seemed to bear a remarkable similarity to what was described in that book.
Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire, investigating a decade-old murder in a house oddly similar to Borley Rectory or staying at a hotel in Winchester, Mrs.
Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire, investigating a decade-old murder in a house oddly similar to Borley Rectory, or staying at a hotel in Winchester, Mrs.
Eric Smith, had just moved into the big redbrick house known as Borley Rectory.
Over the next twenty years, until his death in 1948, Price made Borley Rectory a major part of his investigative work.
In 1940 he published a book that in its title called Borley Rectory The Most Haunted House in England.
Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England.
After service Brat went to Sunday lunch at the Rectory, but not until he had run the gamut of village good wishes.
The Rectory, for all its books and bottles, its fishing-rods and curious specimens, was not a mere refuge for his own work and his own hobbies, but a centre of light and warmth where all his parishioners might come and find a welcome.
Visit of the Westwyns to Sir Hugh shewed Lavinia in so favourable a light, that nothing less than the strong prepossession already conceived for Camilla could have guarded the heart of the son, or the wishes of the father, from the complete captivation of her modest beauty, her intrinsic worth, and the chearful alacrity, and virtuous self-denial, with which she presided in the new oeconomy of the rectory.
Certainly Francis De Brel and Jeanne Rousset did their best to help, and Pandora received at least one surprising gift an old perambulator which the Reverend Edward Beaufort had found in the attic of his rectory.
Wilson and Clara smiled while John continued his teazing until they reached the rectory.