rectorate
(ˈrɛktərət)
[f. rector + -ate1; cf. med.L. rectorātus (1382 in Du Cange), F. rectorat (1642).]
The office or position of a rector; the period during which the office is held.
| 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 198 The second was made under his own Rectorate, the last of August, 1652. 1831 E. Baldwin Ann. Yale Coll. 85 He..settled in the ministry, at Windham,..from whence he was removed, fourteen years after, to the Rectorate of the College. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 3/1 The Rectorate of the University [of Berlin] is an annual tenancy. |
| attrib. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly XIII. 263 In his very instructive rectorate address..Herr von Littzow deduces [etc.]. |