preceptor

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Within eight years Preceptor Gauss became head of the department of Modern Languages, There he stayed until 1925 when the job of Dean of the College opened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brother William de Sonnac, by the grace of God Master of the poor chivalry of the Temple, to his beloved brother in Christ, Robert de Sanford, Preceptor of England, salvation in the Lord.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.

Then he hid it where the priest had hid his bequest long ago, and then lay down to dream of Monsieur the Preceptor, and that they had met at last.

From Frances Kane's Fortune by Meade, L. T.

Many selections for these occasions came from the Kentucky "Preceptor," rich in such utterance as Pitt's "Speech on the Slave Trade."

From Lincoln, the Politician by Levy, T. Aaron

Upper and central Italy.—The houses or preceptories of the order of the Temple in this province were very numerous, and were all under the immediate superintendence of the Grand Prior or Preceptor of Rome.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.