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rectorial

rectorial adjective: relating to a rector.

Adjective

rectorial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a rector.

Noun

rectorial (plural rectorials)

  1. The events associated with the appointment of a new rector.
    • It is also worth mentioning in passing – Sandy's full account does not include this aspect – that rectorials then included an event the like of which health and safety today would never now sanction – an organised and ferocious battle in the Marischal College quadrangle between the respective...2011, Sandy Hobbs, Willie Thompson, Out of the Burning House, →ISBN
    • In 1993 Sir William Kerr Fraser, who as president of the SRC in 1951 organised the flour-spattered installation of the nationalist John MacCormick as Lord Rector of Glasgow University, told me that rectorials weren't what they were in his day.2013, Arnold Kemp, The Hollow Drum: Scotland Since the War, →ISBN

Forms of rectorial

pluralrectorials

Origin of rectorial

From rector + -ial.

Words that rhyme with rectorial

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Questions about rectorial

What does rectorial mean?
Rectorial means relating to a rector.
What part of speech is rectorial?
Rectorial can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near rectorial in the dictionary

  1. rectorate
  2. rectorates
  3. rectorectal
  4. rectoress
  5. rectoresses
  6. rectorial
  7. rectorials
  8. rectories
  9. rectorite
  10. rectorrhagia
  11. rectors

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