Ben Jonson: Sejanus

10. 2. In the Established Church of England a clergyman who has the cure of a parish, and has the parsonage and tithes; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate, as distinguished from a vicar (q. v.). 3. In the Roman Catholic Church, the head of a religious house; among the Jesuits, the head of a house that is a seminary or college. [MISSIONARY RECTOR] 4. The principal of a university in France and Scotland, also the heads of Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, Oxford. In Scotland the head-master of an academy or important public school. "The rector of the vniuersitie called to counsell all the doctors."- Hall : Henry VIII . (an. 22).