curates

Noun (1)

curate (plural curates)

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.
3. (Ireland) An assistant barman.
   • ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107

Noun (2)

curate (plural curates)

1. An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.

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