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Without an atom of pomposity or air rectorial, he settled himself to listen Condensing as much as he could, Wingfold told him how through great doubt, and dismal trouble of mind, he had come to hope in God, and to see that there was no choice for a man but to give himself, heart, and soul, and body, to the love, and will, and care of the Being who had made him.

—Paul Faber, Surgeon

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Of or pertaining to a rector or a rectory.
Rectorial tithes tithes payable to the rector, ordinarily those of corn, hay, and wood. Also great tithes. The tithes of many things, as wood in particular, are in some parishes rectorial, and in some vicarial tithes. Blackstone, Com., I. xi.

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HUSTINGS for the Edinburgh University rectorial election will be held the day before students go to the polls.
Without an atom of pomposity or air rectorial, he settled himself to listen Condensing as much as he could, Wingfold told him how through great doubt, and dismal trouble of mind, he had come to hope in God, and to see that there was no choice for a man but to give himself, heart, and soul, and body, to the love, and will, and care of the Being who had made him. — Paul Faber, Surgeon
The rectorial tithe of Hursley having been given to St. Elizabeth's — John Keble's Parishes
I have no end of things to say to you, "she added, and her little lively ponies shot ahead of the old rectorial steed. — Clever Woman of the Family
_ (Mild, benign, rectorial, reproving, the head of Don John Conmee rises from the pianola coffin.) _ — Ulysses