[f. CURATE + -AGE.]
† 1. The office of a curator or guardian; provision of curators or guardians. Obs.
1759. State Papers, in Ann. Reg., 255/2. The appointment of the tutelage and curatage for the King, during his minority.
2. Sometimes applied to the house or residence provided for a curate. [After vicarage.]
1879. Standard, 31 July. (Births), At The Curatage, Biddenden, Staplehurst, Kent.
1893. Crockford, Clerical Directory, Pref. 13. A very few clergymen date their letters from ‘The Curatage.’… It can only be in very exceptional cases that the house inhabited by a Curate can have the very slightest claim for any sort of name … analogous to that of a vicarage or rectory; and even then it may be questioned whether … it should not be ‘Parsonage.’
