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rectorial

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Rectorial (noun) means the activities that take place when a new rector is chosen.

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The activities that take place when a new rector is chosen.

"This is in direct contrast to Edinburgh, where local shopkeepers and places of entertainment have been known to keep their calendar by university terms and know exactly when graduations, rectorials, and rags take place." — Joan Abbott, Student Life in a Class Society (2014)

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