Crossword-Solution: RECTORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rectory | n. | The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes. |
| Rectory | n. | A rector's mansion; a parsonage house. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “RECTORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Churchman's residence | 1 answer |
| Abode for member of the clergy | 1 answer |
| Tied house right behind field | 1 answer |
| Priest's house | 1 answer |
| Parish priest's dwelling | 1 answer |
| Parish house | 1 answer |
| Clergy house | 1 answer |
| Clergy abode | 1 answer |
| Priest's home | 2 answers |
| Minister's residence | 2 answers |
| Church residence | 2 answers |
| Parish residence | 2 answers |
| Father's home? | 2 answers |
| Minister's house | 3 answers |
| PASTORAL place | 4 answers |
| Parsonage | 6 answers |
| A CLERGYMAN APPOINTED TO ACT AS PRIEST OF A PARISH | 10 answers |
| CHURCHY LA ___ | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with RECTORY (5)
Miles, and had even, during the memorable trip to Nettleton, imagined herself married to a man who had such a straight nose and such a beautiful way of speaking, and who lived in a brown-stone rectory covered with Virginia creeper.
Yesterday, at the Rectory garden party, he asked her what her favourite flowers were, and she told him carnations, and to-day a whole stack of carnations has arrived, clove and malmaison and lovely dark red ones, regular exhibition blooms, and a box of chocolates that he must have got on purpose from London.
The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were ordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished to marry they could only do so by accepting one of the smaller livings at the disposal of the Chapter; but for many years none of them had cared to leave the refined society of Tercanbury, which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and they were now all men of middle age.
For at one time Mr Holbrook was an occasional visitor at the rectory—you know he was Miss Pole’s cousin—and he had been very kind to Peter, and taught him how to fish—he was very kind to everybody, and I thought Peter might have gone off there.
Her family connexion as servants with the clergy found her room for three days in the rectory, after which she became apprentice to a needlewoman of the town, one Marie-Jeanne Leboucher, with whom she lived.
Quotes with RECTORY (3)
Across the rectory's east lawn, through a blizzard of flying leaves, something long and thin was flapping in the wind. A ragged figure in a white nightgown hanging lifelessly from the trees.
Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
Winter's last rain and a light I don't recognize through the trees and I come back in my mind to the man who made me suck his cock when I was seven, in sunlight, between boxcars. I thought I could leave him standing there in the years, half smile on his lips, small hands curled into small fists, but after he finished, he held my hand in hisas if astonished, until the houses were visiblejust beyond the railyard. He held my hand but before that he slapped me hard on the face wh…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1970–2022).