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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
curate1 /ˈkjʊərət/

▶noun (also assistant curate) a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a parish priest.

■ archaic a minister with pastoral responsibility.

– phrases
curate's egg Brit. something that is partly good and partly bad. [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’.]

– derivatives
curacy noun (pl. curacies).

– origin ME: from med. L. curatus, from L. cura ‘care’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
curate2 /kjʊ(ə)ˈreɪt/

▶verb select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition).

– derivatives
curation noun.

– origin C19: back-form. from curator.

'curate' also found in these Oxford entries:

curate-in-charge - curé

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