Definition of Rectories

1. Noun. (plural of rectory) ¹

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Definition of Rectories

1. rectory [n] - See also: rectory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectories

rectolaryngeal reflex
rectoperineal
rectoperineorrhaphy
rectopexy
rectophobia
rectoplasty
rector
rectoral
rectorate
rectorates
rectoress
rectoresses
rectorial
rectories
rectorite
rectorrhagia
rectorrhaphy
rectors
rectorship
rectorships
rectory
rectos
rectoscope
rectoscopes
rectoscopy
rectosigmoid
rectosigmoid junction
rectosigmoid sphincter

Literary usage of Rectories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England by Robert Phillimore (1873)
"Conversion into Rectories. By 3 Geo. 4, c. 72, it is enacted as follows :— Sect. 13. ... L .L , 3 i .1 rectories, the entitled in lee simple 01 a sinecure ..."

2. The History of the Law of Tithes in England: Being the Yorke Prize Essay of by William EASTERBY (1888)
"The monasteries in this way became possessed of a multitude of rectories, which number ... The duties of such v " appropriated" rectories were performed by ..."

3. The Irish Jurist (1863)
"... which lands, tenement?, rectories, tithes rents, and hereditaments, by force and virtue of such execution shall accordingly he held and enjoyed by the ..."

4. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1839)
"... and that the patron or patrons of the said benefices, sinecure rectory or rectories, vicarage or vicarages respectively is or are consenting thereto, ..."

5. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1873)
"Records concerning forcible entries upon Rectories, &c. p. 304. Cases in which forcible entry was made into rectories and prebends both by clerks and by ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by Richard Holmes Coote, William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith (1884)
"20 374 3. Collateral securities valid 376 4. Sequestration 377 5. Bankruptcy 380 6. Charges for building rectories 382 7. Statute of Limitations 383 (1. ..."

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