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 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

So we both agreed that we were most likely to do His will if we persevered in the curacy.

From Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography by Hoare, Edward N.

Many of the Fellows also held benefices or curacies near Cambridge.

From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

That bishopric possesses the curacy of the sacristy of the holy church of Nueva Cáceres; and in the province of Camarìnes, the curacies of Indàn, Paracàle, Capalònga, Caramòan, and Lagonòy, with several 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 Blair, Emma Helen

They administer many benefices and curacies in the islands of Luzon, Luban, Mindoro, and others—besides the above-mentioned curacies and chaplaincies, both within and without Manila.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 Bourne, Edward Gaylord

The chapter provided that special care was to be taken that no ministerial duties were to be accepted as curacies, but merely as charity—with liberty of removal, due notice being given to the bishops.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 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 XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

He for a short time held curacies respectively in Buckinghamshire and Somersetshire.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles