noun. See curat.

noun. According to former use, one who has the cure of souls; a priest; a minister.

noun. In the Church of England, and in the Irish Roman Catholic Church, a clergyman employed under the incumbent (whether rector or vicar), either as assistant in the same church or in a chapel within the parish and connected with the church.

noun. A guardian; a protector.

noun. One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

noun. an assistant rector or vicar

noun. a parish priest

verb. To act as a curator for.

verb. To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

verb. To work or act as a curator.

noun. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

"Technically speaking the curate is the one who exercises the cure of souls, and his assistants are vicars and coadjutors; but in this article the word curate is used in its accepted English sense, viz. assistant priest, and corresponds, in a general way, to the vicarius temporalis, auxiliaris presbyter, coadjutor parochi."

perpetual curate  stipendiary curate  

curate's egg  curated  

clergyman  man of the cloth  reverend  

ministrant  

chaplain  clergy  clergyman  clerk  constable  

DD  Doctor of Divinity  Grand Penitentiary  Holy Father  Holy Joe  

curates