curate

IPA: kjˈʊrʌt

noun

  • An assistant rector or vicar.
  • A parish priest.
  • (Ireland) An assistant barman.
  • (inorganic chemistry) An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.

verb

  • (transitive) To act as a curator for.
  • (by extension, transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
  • (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.
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Examples of "curate" in Sentences

  • The curate prepared for the services.
  • The collections seem disordered, not curated.
  • Victor is based on the character of the Curate.
  • The exhibition was curated by the Israel Museum curator Meira Perry.
  • As a girl the word curate inspired in me feelings of respect and sentiment. "
  • Our curate is not a man to preach fire and brimstone or scold parishioners for their failings and sins.
  • Mr. Pratt, our new curate, is allowed to be a classical scholar of considerable eminence, and he has promised to instruct Sam ....
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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