rectorial
The events associated with the appointment of a new rector.
Adjective
- Relating to a rector.
Origin
Etymology tree English rector Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English rectorial From rector + -ial.
Noun
- The events associated with the appointment of a new rector.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....