vi-curate

Look at other dictionaries:

• Curate — • Literally, one who has the cure (care) or charge of souls, in which sense it is yet used by the Church of England, All Bishops and Curates Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Curate     Curate …   Catholic encyclopedia

• curate — Ⅰ. curate [1] ► NOUN ▪ a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a parish priest. ● curate s egg Cf. ↑curate s egg ORIGIN Latin curatus, from cura care . Ⅱ. curate …   English terms dictionary

• curate's egg — ► curate s egg Brit. something that is partly good and partly bad. [ORIGIN: from a cartoon in Punch (1895) depicting a meek curate who, given a stale egg when dining with the bishop, assures his host that ‘parts of it are excellent’.] Main Entry …   English terms dictionary

• Curate — Cu rate (k[=u] r[asl]t), n. [LL. curatus, prop., one who is charged with the care (L. cura) of souls. See {Cure}, n., and cf. {Cur[ e]}] One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• curate's egg — (UK) If something is a bit of a curate s egg, it is only good in parts …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• curate's egg — n. [based on a joke in an 1895 issue of the English magazine Punch: when served a stale egg at his bishop s home, a timid curate says that parts of it are excellent] Brit. something that has both good and bad characteristics or parts …   English World dictionary

• curate — (n.) late 14c., spiritual guide, from M.L. curatus one responsible for the care (of souls), from L. curatus, pp. of curare to take care of (see CURE (Cf. cure) (v.)). Church of England sense of paid deputy priest of a parish first recorded 1550s …   Etymology dictionary

• curate — [kyoor′it; ] for v. [, kyoor′āt΄] n. [ME curat < ML curatus, one responsible for the care of souls < L curatus: see CURATIVE] 1. Archaic any clergyman 2. a clergyman who assists a vicar or rector vt. curated, curating to act as a curator… …   English World dictionary

• Curate — A curate (  /ˈkjʊərɨ …   Wikipedia

• curate's egg — ¦kyu̇rə̇ts¦ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: so called from a cartoon in the weekly Punch depicting a curate who was given a stale egg by his bishop and declared that parts of it were excellent chiefly Britain : something with both good and bad parts or… …   Useful english dictionary

• Curate's egg — Bishop: I m afraid you ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones ; Curate: Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent! True Humility by George du Maurier, originally published in Punch, 1895. The expression a curate s egg originally meant… …   Wikipedia