rectorship n the office or station of a rector Usage(s) My rectorship, since 1893, represents a period of extraordinary transition in this part of the city. The ermine and broadcloth of a British University's lord-rectorship are one thing. But since the death last February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. Synonym(s) rectorate