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pro-rector|ˌprəʊˈrɛktə(r)|
[f. pro-1 4 + rector; also mod.L.; Ger. prorektor.]
The deputy or substitute of a rector in a university, college, or other educational institution; a vice-rector.
Formerly in use in the Scottish universities; also in those of Germany, in some of which the king or prince of the state was formerly the nominal Rector (rector 4 c), and the professor who executed the duties of the office was pro-rector. (Cf. the positions of Chancellor and Vice-chancellor at Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin.) Also in some other German institutes of higher education.
c1618Moryson Itin. iv. iv. i. (1903) 306 But if it happen that any Baron or Prince be Student in the University, they vse to chuse him Rector for the yeare, and he vseth to chuse for his Prorector or Substitute, him who by order and course should haue otherwise beene Rector that yeare. [1685(Feb. 25) Acta Rectorum Univ. St. Andr. III. 471 Nomina incorporatorum in Collegio D. Leonardi R.D.D. Waltero Comrio pro Rectore, Collegii Dae Mariae primario.] 1858(Mar. 1) Minutes Univ. St. Andrews XVII. 415 (MS.) The Senatus appointed the ex-Rector to act in the meantime as pro-Rector and Promotor. 1886Pall Mall G. 18 Aug. 4/2 The pro-rectors..of the several [German] universities represented [at Heidelberg] wore their gold chains of office. 1896Daily News 12 June 7/1 The Emperor..was received..by the Rector and Pro-Rector of the Polytechnicum, in their long brown gowns and caps. 1908J. Maitland Anderson Let. to Editor 5 Mar., [At St. Andrews] Down to the date of the Ordinances following on the Universities Act of 1858 there was always a pro-Rector, or, as he was sometimes called, a vice-Rector, whose duty it was to act for the Rector in his absence.
Hence proˈrectorate, the office of a pro-rector.
1846in Worcester (citing Wm. Howitt). 1863W. C. Dowding Life Calixtus xxii. 203 The duties of the prorectorate have occupied and distracted me. |