Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A cleric, especially one who has charge of a parish.
- n. A cleric who assists a rector or vicar.
- transitive v. To act as curator of; organize and oversee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. an assistant rector or vicar
- n. a parish priest
- v. To act as a curator for.
- v. To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
- v. To work or act as a curator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. According to former use, one who has the cure of souls; a priest; a minister.
- n. In the Church of England, and in the Irish Roman Catholic Church, a clergyman employed under the incumbent (whether rector or vicar), either as assistant in the same church or in a chapel within the parish and connected with the church.
- n. A guardian; a protector.
- n. See curat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a person authorized to conduct religious worship
Etymologies
Examples
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Technically speaking the curate is the one who exercises the cure of souls, and his assistants are vicars and coadjutors; but in this article the word curate is used in its accepted English sense, viz. assistant priest, and corresponds, in a general way, to the vicarius temporalis, auxiliaris presbyter, coadjutor parochi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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I know the word 'curate' may not be familiar to you in this context, but in the new world of too much data - organizing and filtering information is critically important.
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Our curate is not a man to preach fire and brimstone or scold parishioners for their failings and sins.
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In English-speaking countries, however, the word curate has gradually become the title of those priests who are assistants to the rector, or parish priest, in the general parochial work of the parish or mission to which they are sent by the bishop of the diocese or his delegate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Mr. Pratt, our new curate, is allowed to be a classical scholar of considerable eminence, and he has promised to instruct Sam ....
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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As a girl the word curate inspired in me feelings of respect and sentiment. "
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Until the 1920s, the pastor was a cura animarum, the "cure of souls," or "curate" -- a person who cared for souls by helping people locate themselves in God's greater story.
Anne Dilenschneider: Soul Care and the Roots of Clergy Burnout
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Until the 1920s, the pastor was a cura animarum, the "cure of souls" or "curate" -- a person who cared for souls by helping people locate themselves in God's greater story.
Anne Dilenschneider: Soul Care and the Roots of Clergy Burnout
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Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young – lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
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‘I might say a curate is a soldier — of the church militant; but I don’t want to offend you with doctrine.
lweber5@scf.edu commented on the word curate
His curate passed on a bicycle. -Websters Dictionary pg.20
September 24, 2010