Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office, duties, or term of office of a curate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or employment of a curate.
- noun The condition or office of a guardian; guardianship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office or employment of a curate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The office or position of a
curate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of a curate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His curacy was a post to be occupied by some feebler man than Felix; a man whose powers were only equal to the quiet work of carrying on the labors begun by his rector.
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We knew Fr John Tolkien, son of J R R Tolkien, during his curacy at the English Martyrs, Birmingham, a parish with more than 7,000 parishioners.
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The Brontës 'father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, had come a long way from a two-room cottage in Drumballyroney in County Down to study theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and then be appointed to a perpetual curacy in Haworth.
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Deprived of the income and home Thomas Moore's curacy had provided, Mary and her children went to live with her widowed mother in Peterborough.
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David remained in the UK and served his curacy at Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge whilst also becoming a chaplain at Girton College in the university from 1976-1979.
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The larger the diocese of the patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite.
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After his first studies at Emmanuel and his immediate post-ordination posting, Charlie left Cambridge only for a brief curacy in Rugby.
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About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with his curacy — just what, is not precisely known — took him to Paris.
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David remained in the UK and served his curacy at Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge whilst also becoming a chaplain at Girton College in the university from 1976-1979.
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David remained in the UK and served his curacy at Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge whilst also becoming a chaplain at Girton College in the university from 1976-1979.
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