Rectorial
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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 ferocious battle in the Marischal College quadrangle between the respective supporting groups on a two-by-two elimination basis."
- 1 Relating to a rector. not-comparable
Example
More examples"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 ferocious battle in the Marischal College quadrangle between the respective supporting groups on a two-by-two elimination basis."
Etymology
From rector + -ial.
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