Definition of "curate" []

• A cleric, especially one who has charge of a parish. (noun)
• A cleric who assists a rector or vicar. (noun)
• To act as curator of; organize and oversee. (verb-transitive)

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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."
• "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."
• "Our curate is not a man to preach fire and brimstone or scold parishioners for their failings and sins."