rectory :

Search Words
You can search or browse for words

rectory

rek tuh ree

  • n  an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector

  • The bishop showed up at the rectory.
  • Faith took up residence in his rectory.
  • Especially disturbing to Hickey, said the Post, were Stallings' refusal to live in a rectory and questions about whether the priest's expensively decorated private residence had .
News & Articles

  • Squantum church and rectory on the market in Quincy
     The closed Star of the Sea church in Squantum is officially on the market. The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston hired Cassidy Turley, a Boston-based real estate broker, to list the former church and rectory, both of which are on Bellevue Road in Quincy. The listings went up June 1.
    June 14, 2013 - The Patriot Ledger
Quotes

  • Jon Stewart in CBS News
    To take a play with four characters and turn it into a feature film seemed pretty challenging until I realized that I can shoot the neighborhood I grew up in, I can shoot the priests in their rectory, the nuns in their convent, I can show the kids... John Patrick Shanley http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patrick_Shanley&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGKFWOtaoy8g4p2zXDGooPu09GWSw New York Observer http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/doubt-director-john-patrick-shanley-i-was-thrown-out-of-high-school&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFrZyiR_L9PomjbwyY01QCCa7R-vw Dec 9, 2008 81351 109131 rectory They said they were going to have me talk to the students and later on have me talk to the parents," Stewart said. "From my Catholic school Chicago upbringing, I thought I was going to be in the rectory with coffee and cake."

Bee Dictionary: Search, browse, look at common errors, idioms and more.