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

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Etymology

Origin of curacy

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

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Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2013

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The title to orders was probably given to him by the Rev. Rowland Chambre, then Vicar of Madeley, at Mr. Hill's request, with the understanding that the curacy should be only nominal.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald

In the province of Tayabas are the curacies of Pyris, Abuyon, Mulanay, and their visitas.

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

After very painstaking efforts, at the time when this book is in press I receive information about the curacies of the seculars of Zebù, in the following form.

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

San Antonio enumerates the curacies in the archbishopric, and the convents and missions of the calced Augustinians.

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

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 curacies were consequently maintained there until the year 1679, when our discalced order took charge of the whole island for reasons which we shall now relate.

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

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