CURATE


Meaning of CURATE in English

n. 1 a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a parish priest. 2 archaic an ecclesiastical pastor. curate-in-charge a curate appointed to take charge of a parish in place of a priest. curate's egg a thing that is partly good and partly bad.

[ ME f. med.L curatus f. L cura CURE ]

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