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A ruler or governor.[R.] God is the supreme rector of the world. Sir M. Hale.

Pertaining to a rector or governor.

The office, rank, or station of a rector; rectorship.

The wife of a rector. Thackeray.

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory; rectoral. Shipley.

Government; guidance. [Obs.] "The rectorship of judgment." Shak.

The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

Containing or making correction; corrective.

who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

One who, or that which, erects.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. Heyse.

The office of prorector.

One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

An assistant restor. [Eng.]