rectory
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈrɛktəri/
:
casa parroquial
- The church held a festive gathering at the rectory to celebrate the holiday season.
Severely now they've clipped his wings, but still the Flagstaff in the rectory garden points to higher things.
- Severely now they've clipped his wings, but still the Flagstaff in the rectory garden points to higher things.
Examples
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Will you give me a call back here at the rectory when you get a chance?
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One weekend, they eloped to Albany and got married in the Cathedral rectory.
Fiction book (1991) -
What if his own neighbor, his very wife, had not come knocking on the rectory door?
Fiction book (1999) -
Take this money and whatever you need from the rectory and go to Lavenham.
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With his last breath, his father bequeathed me the rectory in his estate.
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Mrs. Moriarty was a church secretary when this place was a rectory.
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The youngsters hastened back to the rectory where they gave an account of what had happened to Father Leonard.
Academic text (1990) -
They dropped me off in front of the rectory, near where they'd picked me up.
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Robert parked in front of the rectory, a dark brick edifice that needed scouring, a building Kathryn had never entered.
Fiction book (1998) -
After the service, the pastor welcomed everyone into the rectory for refreshments.
Synonyms
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9.3
A house a church gives to its priest or minister to live in
4
9.9
A house where a church minister lives, often large or impressive
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8.8
A house that a church gives to its priest
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rectory comes from rector, which means 'ruler' or 'leader' and comes from the old Latin regere meaning 'to rule' or 'to guide'. So a rectory is the house of the church leader who looks after the local church.