Crossword clues for curacy
curacy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
curacy
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant.
▪ He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition.
▪ He served curacies around Chipping Norton.
▪ He then served a second curacy in Drumglass Parish, Dungannon.
▪ I would save myself and those around a lot of heartache by forgetting the Sahara and looking for another curacy.
▪ There was some sort of a row in Gray's first curacy at Narborough.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curacy
Curacy \Cu"ra*cy\ (k?"r?-s?), n.; pl. Curacies (-s?z). [See Cure, Curate.] The office or employment of a curate.
Wiktionary
curacy
n. The office or position of a curate
WordNet
curacy
n. the position of a curate
Usage examples of "curacy".
He had obtained a living at an age when other young clergymen are beginning to think of a curacy, and he had obtained such a living as middle-aged parsons in their dreams regard as a possible Paradise for their old years.