curate
[noun kyoo r-it; verb kyoo-reyt, kyoo r-eyt]
- Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- any ecclesiastic entrusted with the cure of souls, as a parish priest.
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- to take charge of (a museum) or organize (an art exhibit): to curate a photography show.
- to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content: “We curate our merchandise with a sharp eye for trending fashion,” the store manager explained.
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Origin of curate
1300–50; Middle English curat (< Anglo-French) < Medieval Latin cūrātus, equivalent to Latin cūr(a) care + -ātus -ate1
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Examples from the Web for curate
Contemporary Examples
For his blog, Otting teams with his mom to curate each post.
And, the moderators attempt to curate the content with the same respect.
The first stage of his Imago Mundi collection has taken Benetton and his team five years to curate.
Last year, festival director Laszlo Jakab Orsos had the idea of asking a special writer to curate a book bag.
According to Diamond, Deitch called him a year ago to propose that he curate Transmission: LA and has been very hands-on since.
Historical Examples
He is a curate—a Welsh curate;—you are yet Mr. Beaufort, a rich and a great man.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
A propos of the curate, I forgot to tell you that he is here.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Why did women treat him as though he were a curate and Vernon as though he were a god?
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit
It was a priest, however, the curate of the parish, who now occupied the house.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
They rested now upon the bride, now upon the bridegroom, now upon the faces of the rector and his curate.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
curate1
- a clergyman appointed to assist a parish priest
- a clergyman who has the charge of a parish (curate-in-charge)
- Irish an assistant barman
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Word Origin
C14: from Medieval Latin cūrātus, from cūra spiritual oversight, cure
curate2
- (tr) to be in charge of (an art exhibition or museum)
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Word Origin
C20: back formation from curator
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Word Origin and History for curate
n.
late 14c., "spiritual guide," from Medieval Latin curatus "one responsible for the care (of souls)," from Latin curatus, past participle of curare "to take care of" (see cure (v.)). Church of England sense of "paid deputy priest of a parish" first recorded 1550s.
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