curacy

American  

[kyoor-uh-see] / ˈkjʊər ə si /

noun

• curacies
  plural

1. the office or position of a curate.

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curacy British  

/ ˈkjʊərəsɪ /

noun

1. the office or position of curate

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• curacies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of curacy

1675–85; cura(te) + -cy, modeled on pairs like primate, primacy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

curacy curacies

It found he "missed the structured support of a formal curacy" as he was "placed by the former Bishop of Llandaff immediately into an incumbency-level post".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

There are glimpses of it in The Village, a poem written at the time of his curacy, which sets out to deflate sentimental ideas about rural life.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2013

There was only one problem: the curacy procured for him was back in Aldeburgh.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2013

He held the curacy of Lower Brixham, Devon, from 1823 until his death in the autumn of 1847.

From Time Magazine Archive

She expected Mr. ——'s instant dismissal from his curacy; she knew, from bitter experience, that his vices were utterly hopeless.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland

His Excellency the prelate immediately formed two curacies of the entire island, which he handed over to the secular clergy so that they might aid those souls.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

They support students holding fellowships, usually twenty-four to thirty, without receiving any stipend: and have thus sent out, as they are still doing, graduates of much learning, for the dignities and curacies of those islands.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Emma Helen Blair

The king had much at heart the establishment of permanent curacies, and in 1679 issued an edict on the subject, which, however, had little effect.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

The sickness and death of the bishop, and the distance of that bishopric, have delayed the news that I had hoped to receive of the curacies in its district.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

And in more distant vicarages and curacies, where the patron was in some degree known, there were flutterings of heart and anxious searchings of the "Guardian" and Crockford.

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman