Definition of Rectar
Rector, a clergyman of the Church of England, who has a right to the
great and small tithes of the living; where the tithes are impropriate he
is called a vicar.
- Wikipedia
Rec"tor (r?k"t?r), n. [L., fr.
regere, rectum, to lead straight, to rule: cf. F.
recteur. See Regiment, Right.]
1. A ruler or governor. [R.]
God is the supreme rector of the
world. Sir M. Hale.
2. (a) (Ch. of Eng.) 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. Blackstone. (b)
(Prot. Epis. Ch.) A clergyman in charge of a
parish.
3. The head master of a public school.
[Scot.]
4. 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.
5. (R.C.CH.) 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the
parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- A headmaster in a university.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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