Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "A rector in the widest ecclesiastical sense, is "one who sets straight, guides, directs; a ruler, governor, director, guide, leader," from the Latin verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum, "to set straight, guide, direct". A female equivalent is rectoress, and the term and office of a rector are a rectorate, or to be in charge of a school or universityThe Latin adjective rectus, meaning "straight", derives from the same source as the verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum, to rule, set straight. Thus a "ruler" in English refers both to a king and a drawing instrument for producing straight lines. In a moral sense a rector has the function of keeping those under his authority on the "straight and narrow path" of correct religious ideology. In classical Latin a rector may be a ruler, director or naval steersman, from which sense is derived "governor", Latin gubernator, one who operates the gubernum, the "rudder" of a ship."@en }
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- Rector_(ecclesiastical) abstract "A rector in the widest ecclesiastical sense, is "one who sets straight, guides, directs; a ruler, governor, director, guide, leader," from the Latin verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum, "to set straight, guide, direct". A female equivalent is rectoress, and the term and office of a rector are a rectorate, or to be in charge of a school or universityThe Latin adjective rectus, meaning "straight", derives from the same source as the verb rego, regere, rexi, rectum, to rule, set straight. Thus a "ruler" in English refers both to a king and a drawing instrument for producing straight lines. In a moral sense a rector has the function of keeping those under his authority on the "straight and narrow path" of correct religious ideology. In classical Latin a rector may be a ruler, director or naval steersman, from which sense is derived "governor", Latin gubernator, one who operates the gubernum, the "rudder" of a ship.".