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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 636 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURATE (from the See also:Lat. curare, to take care of)  , properly a See also:presbyter who has the cure of souls within a See also:parish . The See also:term is used in this See also:general sense in certain rubrics of the See also:English See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer, in which it is applied equally to rectors and vicars as to perpetual curates . So, on the See also:continent of See also: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 of See also:England to the See also:incumbent of a parish who has no endowment of See also:tithes, as distinguished from a perpetual See also:vicar, who has an endowment of small tithes, which are for that See also: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 for them to provide for the cure; and when such appropriations were transferred to See also:lay persons, being unable to serve themselves, the impropriators were required to nominate a clerk in full orders to the See also:ordinary for his See also:licence to serve the cure . Such curates, being not removable at the See also: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 " in the See also:present See also:day is almost exclusively used to signify a clergyman who is assistant to a See also:rector or vicar, by whom he is employed and paid; and a clerk in See also:deacon's orders is competent to be licensed by a See also:bishop to the See also:office of such assistant curate . The consequence of this misuse of the term " curate "was that the See also:title of " perpetual curate " See also:fell into desuetude in the See also:Anglican Church, and an See also:act of See also:parliament (1868) was passed to authorize perpetual curates to See also:style themselves vicars (see VICAR) . The term is in use in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Church in See also:Ireland to designate an assistant clergyman, and also to a certain extent in the See also:American Episcopal Church, though " assistant See also:minister " is usually preferred .

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