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What (who) is curate - definition
RELIGIOUS OCCUPATION
Curacy; Curé; Curates; Curatus; Curacies; Assistant curate; Curate-in-Charge; Assistant Curate; Initial Ministerial Education
curate
(curated)
1.
A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
N-COUNT
2.
If an exhibition is curated by someone, they organize it.
The Hayward exhibition has been curated by the artist Bernard Luthi.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
curate
curate1 ['kj??r?t]
¦ noun (also assistant curate) a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a parish priest.
?archaic a minister with pastoral responsibility.
Phrases
curate's egg Brit. something that is partly good and partly bad. [from a cartoon in Punch (1895) depicting a meek curate who, given a stale egg when dining with the bishop, assures his host that 'parts of it are excellent'.]
Derivatives
curacy noun (plural curacies).
Origin
ME: from med. L. curatus, from L. cura 'care'.
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curate2 [kj?(?)'re?t]
¦ verb select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition).
Derivatives
curation noun
Origin
C19: back-form. from curator.
Curate
·noun One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Wikipedia
Curate
A curate () is a person who is invested with the care or cure (cura) of souls of a parish. In this sense, curate means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term curate is commonly used to describe clergy who are assistants to the parish priest. The duties or office of a curate are called a curacy.
Examples of use of curate
1. Around 15,000 people crammed into Duekoue‘s Catholic mission where the curate said the situation was dramatic.
2. The new curate has run an energetic campaign from his office at the Commons.
3. No wonder that the gallery has employed a black–cassocked curate instead of a bouncer for its opening–night party.
4. Visitors can also curate their own tours by visiting Tates website and selecting paintings according to any theme they choose.
5. There are no toilets, no water and people are still arriving," said curate Francois Cisco at the mission.