Rectorial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Rectorial is an adjective meaning Relating to a rector.
Meaning
Relating to a rector.
More Meanings
- The events associated with the appointment of a new rector.
Example Sentences
This is in direct contrast to Edinburgh, where local shopkeepers and places of entertainment have been known to keep their calendar by university terms and know exactly when graduations, rectorials, and rags take place.
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.
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 supporting groups on a two-by-two elimination basis.
Word Forms
- rectorials
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tithes, rectoral, rectricial, refectorial, regental, rectificational.
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