- a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
- an ecclesiastic in charge of a college, religious house, or congregation.
- a member of the clergy who has the charge of a parish with full possession of all its rights, tithes, etc.
- the head of certain universities, colleges, and schools.
- a clergyman in charge of a parish in which, as its incumbent, he would formerly have been entitled to the whole of the tithes
- a cleric in charge of a college, religious house, or congregation
- a clergyman in charge of a parish
- the head of certain schools or colleges
- (in Scotland) a high-ranking official in a university: now a public figure elected for three years by the students
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