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curate(1) (iou)



curate noun. ME.
[medieval Latin curatus a person who has a cure or charge (of a parish), from cura: see CURE noun1, -ATE1.]
I. A person holding a spiritual charge.
gen. An ecclesiastical or spiritual pastor. arch. ME.
A member of the clergy engaged as a paid assistant or deputy to an incumbent in the Church of England or in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. M16.
The priest of a Roman Catholic parish in Continental Europe. M17.
II. A person holding a temporal charge.
A curator; an overseer. LME-M17.
In Ireland: an assistant to a person selling spirits etc.; a bartender. E20.
Phrases & comb.: curate-in-charge: appointed to take charge of a Anglican parish during the incapacity or suspension of the incumbent. curate's comfort a cake-stand with two or more tiers. curate's egg something of very mixed character, partly good and partly bad. curate's friend = curate's comfort above. perpetual curate: see PERPETUAL adjective.
curateship noun the post or position of curate, a curacy L16-M19.
cu'ratic,
cu'ratical adjectives L19.