curacy

[ kyoo r-uh-see ]

/ ˈkyʊər ə si /

the office or position of a curate.

Origin of curacy

1675–85; cura(te) + -cy, modeled on pairs like primate, primacy

He was ordained on the 21st of December 1781 to the curacy of his native town.

Crabbe, (George) |Alfred Ainger
A brass in the chapel commemorates the fact that the martyred Bishop Hannington was born and held a curacy here.

Seaward Sussex |Edric Holmes
I shall ask him to try and get me a curacy as soon as possible.'

Hyacinth |George A. Birmingham
Unlike most of his fellows in the college classrooms, he refused to regard an English curacy as the goal of his ambition.

Hyacinth |George A. Birmingham

The larger the diocese of the patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite.

Les Misrables |Victor Hugo

curacy

/ (ˈkjʊərəsɪ) /

the office or position of curate