Meaning of RECTOR in English

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Meaning of RECTOR in English

• A ruler or governor.
• 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.
• A clergyman in charge of a parish.
• The head master of a public school.
• 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.
• 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.

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