rectory

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  1. noun The house in which a parish priest or minister lives.
  2. noun An Anglican rector's dwelling.
  3. noun An Anglican rector's office and benefice.

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  • The couple and their four daughters are moving into the four-bedroom rectory, a Victorian house that shares a lush, green lawn with the wooden gothic church built in 1855. —  The Union - All Categories
  • Yet he has refused to leave the rectory, and Good Shepherd continues to pay his salary.
  • The Catholic Newman Center and the rectory are located on the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus. —  HOI-19 - Local News
  • They then apparently rummaged through office desks and cabinets inside the rectory, and made off with an estimated $340. —  TV6 - TV6 News
  • Anctil had purchased the church and rectory to act as a base camp for the development crew working on the mill, and the upstairs of the rectory was going to be his family's home. —  The Valley Advocate: News
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  1. from Old French rectorie =Spanish rectoría =Portuguese reitoria =Italian rettoria, from Middle Latin rectoria, the office or rank of a rector, from Latin rector, a rector: see rector.
 

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