curacy
curacy
Definition
cu·racy (kyo̵or′ə sē)
noun pl. curacies -·cies
the position, office, or work of a curate
curacy
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- serve: Gwyn and Kay moved to St David's Diocese early in 1970 where he served a second curacy at Pembroke Dock.
- hold: He and three of his descendants held the Curacy of Bolton Abbey continuously for 117 years.
- take: He then took the curacy of the Parish Church at Cheltenham under the Reverend Francis Close, afterward Dean of Carlisle.
- live: It is a parish in the deanry of Furness and Cartmel; the living a perpetual curacy; patron, the King.
- follow: There followed a Curacy in Llanelli, a period of teaching in Nassau, the Bahamas, and then hospital Chaplaincies in London.
- accept: Newton accepted the curacy of Olney, where he lived until 1780 when he became Rector of St Mary Woolnoth in London.
Adjective modifier
- perpetual: The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Durham, value £ 62.
- p.: The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Chester.
- first: He served his first curacy at St Nicholas, Kingston upon Hull in the Diocese of York.
- second: Gwyn and Kay moved to St David's Diocese early in 1970 where he served a second curacy at Pembroke Dock.
- donative: The living is a donative curacy in the diocese of Durham, value £ 93, in the patronage of Sir M. W. Ridley.
Preposition: in
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