[VICE-. Cf. F. vice-recteur, It. vicerettore, Sp. vicerector, Pg. -reitor.] A deputy rector (of a theological college).
1629. Wadsworth, Pilgr., iii. 12. Entire obseruance and duty to bee performed to the Rector…, next to the Vice-Rector as his minister.
1824. in Ushaw Mag., Dec. (1913), 259. Your late worthy Vice Rector has been at Ushaw some days.
1890. J. Morris, in Month, April, 491. With Dr. Ferdinand English, then Vice-Rector of the English College at Rome,… I left England.
Hence Vice-rectorship.
1856. J. Morris, in J. H. Pollen, Life (1896), vii. 165. When the Vice-Rectorship of the English College was offered me, I did not hesitate to accept it.
