See also:

• CURATE (from the Lat. curare, to take care of)

CURATE (from the See also:

• LAT

Lat. curare, to take care of)  , properly a See also:

• PRESBYTER (Gr. apactObTepos, elder, the comparative of IrOo-Oas, an old man)

presbyter who has the cure of souls within a See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish . The See also:

• TERM

term is used in this See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense in certain rubrics of the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• BOOK

Book of See also:

• COMMON

Common See also:

• PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
• PRAYER, BOOK OF COMMON

Prayer, in which it is applied equally to rectors and vicars as to perpetual curates . So, on the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, it is applied in this sense to parish priests, as the Fr. cure, Ital. curato, Span. cure, &c . In a more limited sense it is applied in the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England to the See also:

• INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

incumbent of a parish who has no endowment of See also:

• TITHES

tithes, as distinguished from a perpetual See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar, who has an endowment of small tithes, which are for that See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason sometimes styled vicarial tithes . The origin of such unendowed curacies is traceable to the fact that benefices were sometimes granted to religious houses pleno jure, and with See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty for them to provide for the cure; and when such appropriations were transferred to See also:

• LAY

lay persons, being unable to serve themselves, the impropriators were required to nominate a clerk in full orders to the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary for his See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence to serve the cure . Such curates, being not removable at the See also:

• PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure of the impropriators, but only on due revocation of the licence of the ordinary, came to be entitled perpetual curates . The term " See also:

• CURATE (from the Lat. curare, to take care of)

curate " in the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day is almost exclusively used to signify a clergyman who is assistant to a See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector or vicar, by whom he is employed and paid; and a clerk in See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon's orders is competent to be licensed by a See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop to the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of such assistant curate . The consequence of this misuse of the term " curate "was that the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of " perpetual curate " See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into desuetude in the See also:

• ANGLICAN

Anglican Church, and an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament (1868) was passed to authorize perpetual curates to See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style themselves vicars (see VICAR) . The term is in use in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic Church in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland to designate an assistant clergyman, and also to a certain extent in the See also:

• AMERICAN

American Episcopal Church, though " assistant See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister " is usually preferred .