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curacy|ˈkjʊərəsɪ|
[f. curate: see -acy.]
1. The office or position of a curate; the benefice of a perpetual curate.
1682Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 130 A very good curacy of y⊇ college, at Tring in Buckinghamshire..becomeing void. 1719Swift To Young Clergyman, If they be very fortunate [they] arrive in time to a curacy in town. 1836Penny Cycl. VI. 487/1 The living is a perpetual curacy. 1872E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. iv. 66 He had held a curacy in Yorkshire.
†2. The office of a curator or guardian, curatorship. Obs. rare—1.
a1734North Exam. ii. iv. §57 (1740) 260 The republican Party concluded such Issue must come to the Crown young, and then they had a Game de integro, by Way of Curacy and Protectorship. |
