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1A member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a vicar, rector, or parish priest.
- ‘But in a letter to the village magazine, the assistant curate said the work on the windows had used up the funds available for repairs to the church.’
- ‘Before joining Holy Rood he was assistant curate at St George's Church in Tyldesley.’
- ‘His first appointment, after further studies in Rome, was as assistant curate in a rustic hamlet 15 miles east of Krakow.’
- ‘In 1976 he became assistant curate at Cheam in Surrey and after five years became head of religious studies and chaplain at Radley College in Oxford.’
- ‘Afterwards he said he was looking forward to taking up his new responsibilities as assistant curate at St Mary's, Barnsley.’
- ‘There are lists of rectors, curates, and members who have been ordained in the ministry.’
- ‘Two years ago, he was appointed parish curate completing a total of nine years in Tullow.’
- ‘A former baseball player has been appointed an assistant curate.’
- ‘Since 1994 he has served as curate in our parish living in Kiltegan village.’
- ‘A campaign has begun in earnest to persuade The Vatican to declare a former curate of Clonmore Parish Holy.’
- ‘The local curate expressed understanding at their sense of loss.’
- ‘Two years later a meretricious curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them.’
- ‘After his studies he returned to Galway Diocese and was appointed a curate in Salthill.’
- ‘He has now been appointed a diocesan curate in Allen, County Kildare.’
- ‘Two years later he went to England and became a curate.’
- ‘A very warm welcome is extended to the new curate for Rathdowney parish.’
- ‘We take this opportunity to welcome our new curate.’
- ‘An overawed young curate is having tea with his vicar.’
- ‘In a hard-hitting sermon, the young curate hit out at a lack of parental responsibility in regard to children.’
- ‘Keeping on the religious track, I must admit I found this link on an Anglican curate's blog.’
- 1.1archaic A minister with pastoral responsibility.
Origin
Middle English from medieval Latin curatus, from Latin cura ‘care’.
Pronunciation
verb
[with object]1Select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition)
‘both exhibitions are curated by the Centre's director’- ‘He has had ten years of museum experience curating exhibitions, commissioning new works, and developing artist residency programs.’
- ‘Plus, I am really excited to be guest curating a large exhibition from the museum's wonderful American Folk Art Collection.’
- ‘Over the past decade, my father has been slowly curating a collection of AIDS posters from all over the world, for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda.’
- ‘She asks how the accomplished writer approached the less familiar task of curating an exhibition that explored the drama of drapery from the early Renaissance.’
- ‘In curating the exhibition, she took a very hands-off approach, beyond providing the artists the opportunity to resolve new ideas in a public setting.’
- ‘While working on current exhibitions, she is also curating an exhibition on contemporary African art for 2003.’
- ‘A Question of Place is a finely curated exhibition that provides a platform to a group of artists who have all shared a struggle to find their places in the world.’
- ‘He curated an exhibition a couple of years ago which included a letter on a potsherd in Coptic.’
- ‘He has been curating this collection in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for many years.’
- ‘Building or curating a fossil collection of research value is a task comparable to other commonly recognized tasks, such as setting up a major analytical instrument, and should be similarly evaluated for tenure and promotion purposes.’
- ‘Her true success, however, lies in curating an exhibition that brings to light the power of the sculptors of Venda once more in a show that demands more than one visit.’
- ‘Some of her visual material comes from the architects but much is her own, shot as she buzzes around the world curating exhibitions.’
- ‘She continues writing articles, and curating exhibitions in the tradition of experimental art.’
- ‘To explore this very situation, I am curating a small exhibition at Chambers Fine Art in New York.’
- ‘Project Rooms, a series of individually curated solo exhibitions, will also make its debut at Art Miami.’
- ‘Tate Britain has curated an excellent exhibition, but, despite the recent extension, the gallery needs more room.’
- ‘He has curated exhibitions on 20 th-century British artists and the decorative arts.’
- ‘It is a brilliantly curated exhibition that you can view at home because it's in a book.’
- ‘A number of displays were carefully curated, scholarly exhibitions.’
- ‘The exhibition has been curated to fit a number of different thematic topics, which, it is understood, must be seen chronologically.’
- 1.1Select the performers or performances that will feature in (an arts event or programme)‘in past years the festival has been curated by the likes of David Bowie’
- ‘The Observer is media partner of this year's Meltdown festival, which is curated by Patti Smith.’
- ‘It's a great insane ending to a brilliantly curated day of music.’
- ‘The concert is part of this Meltdown Festival curated by Morrissey.’
- ‘Six years ago, me and a mate went to the Meltdown festival that John Peel was curating at the South Bank centre.’
- ‘She has curated many sound performances, exhibitions and events.’
- ‘In 1990 he curated the U.S. participation in two Italian video festivals, "Taormina Arte Video" and "Riccione TTV."’
- 1.2Select, organize, and present (online content, merchandise, information, etc.), typically using professional or expert knowledge.‘people not only want to connect when using a network but they also enjoy getting credit for sharing or curating information’
- ‘It's a curated platform with 225,000 apps.’
- ‘Mr Hirschorn said that people not only want to connect when using a network but they also enjoy getting credit for sharing or curating information.’
- ‘It appears that consumers like the integrated, curated systems and platforms that Apple has created.’
- ‘The service has a huge database of locations curated by users, and you and other participants can trade virtual items that you've collect.’
- ‘The immediate safe comfortable benefits of curated computing are obvious, but If we all shifted towards curated computing...we'd be losing a big part of what makes the internet great.’
- ‘We're not interested in raw numbers, but ensuring that our valued customers enjoy and appreciate the curated news and the eloquent writers whom we employ, etc. etc.’
- ‘Blueprint is making one of the only serious efforts at collecting, carefully curating and providing information to scientists that would not otherwise be made available in a computer-readable format.’
Origin
Late 19th century back-formation from curator.
Pronunciation
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