[f. CURATE: see -ACY.]

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  1.  The office or position of a curate; the benefice of a perpetual curate.

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1682.  Prideaux, Lett. (Camden), 130. A very good curacy of ye college, at Tring in Buckinghamshire … becomeing void.

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1719.  Swift, To Young Clergyman. If they be very fortunate [they] arrive in time to a curacy in town.

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1836.  Penny Cycl., VI. 487/1. The living is a perpetual curacy.

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1872.  E. Peacock, Mabel Heron, I. iv. 66. He had held a curacy in Yorkshire.

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  † 2.  The office of a curator or guardian, curatorship. Obs. rare–1.

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a. 1734.  North, 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.

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