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Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
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any ecclesiastic entrusted with the cure of souls, as a parish priest.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English curat (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin cūrātus, equivalent to Latin cūr(a) care + -ātus -ate1
1300–50; Middle English curat (< Anglo-French ) < Medieval Latin cūrātus, equivalent to Latin cūr(a) care + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
cu·rate·ship, noun
sub·cu·rate, noun
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Word Origin & History
curate
mid-14c., from M.L. curatus "one responsible for the care (of souls)," from L. curatus, pp. of curare "to take care of." Church of England sense of "paid deputy priest of a parish" first recorded 1550s.
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curate
(from Latin vicarius, "substitute"), an official acting in some special way for a superior, primarily an ecclesiastical title in the Christian Church. In the Roman Empire as reorganized by Emperor Diocletian (reigned 284-305), the vicarius was an important official, and the title remained in use for secular officials in the Middle Ages. In the Roman Catholic Church, "vicar of Christ" became the special designation of the popes starting in the 8th century, and eventually it replaced the older title of "vicar of St. Peter."
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