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ed as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. "Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.

A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.

basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

A guide or director.

One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.

sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

A rectoress. B. Jonson.

A governess; a rectoress.

e . . . he cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory. Palfrey.

To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister. [U. S.]

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

t the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage director.

A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.