Rector

·noun A ruler or governor.

II. Rector ·noun A clergyman in charge of a parish.

III. Rector ·noun The head master of a public school.

IV. Rector ·noun 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.

V. Rector ·noun 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.

VI. Rector ·noun 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.