Crossword-Solution: RECTOR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rector | n. | A ruler or governor. |
| Rector | n. | 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. |
| Rector | n. | A clergyman in charge of a parish. |
| Rector | n. | The head master of a public school. |
| Rector | n. | 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. |
| Rector | n. | 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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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Sentences with RECTOR (5)
Heir presumptive, his lordship's next brother, Stephen Robert, married to Ella, youngest daughter of the Reverend Silas Marden, Rector of Runnigate, and has issue, three daughters.
The white-robed rector read the solemn service for the dead, and then delivered a brief address, in which he spoke of the uncertainty of life, and, to the believer, the certain blessedness of eternity.
Therefore he was soon visiting and staying in houses of men who, in Bestwood, would have looked down on the unapproachable bank manager, and would merely have called indifferently on the Rector.
Cuddie and his mother in 'Old Mortality!') you would buy yourself a rivet, it would show more sense in you!' The Scholiast explains echinus as [Greek phrase deleted from etext]." One more illustration for the oddity's sake from the "Autobiography of a Cornish Rector," by the late James Hamley Tregenna.
The day after I’ll get the rector to drive him over to Crowleigh before lunch, to see the new cottage hospital they’re building there.
Quotes with RECTOR (3)
Some very hungry people gathered to discuss how to distribute a small amount of food. It was understood that each church was supposed to take care of its own. The local Episcopal rector said, "My church, follow me." The Presbyterian minister said, "Mine, follow me." And the other denominations did the same. There were a lot of folks left. Then, William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, stepped forward and said: "All of you who belong to nobody, you follow me.
I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.
You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 73 times in crossword archives (1959–2021).