Definition of curacy in English:
curacy
nounPlural curacies ˈkjʊərəsiˈkjʊrəsi
The office of a curate, or the tenure of this.
he served his curacy in Northampton
Example sentencesExamples
- That of 7 June 1789 may be the first Malthus delivered as ordained deacon licensed to the curacy of Okewood Chapel; the second was read shortly thereafter.
- Jane's mother was disowned because she married beneath her class, and after a year of marriage both parents caught the typhus fever in the curacy where Jane's father worked.
- He did however spend two years in study at Oxford in Magdalen College and had the prospect of a curacy in Buckinghamshire.
- And unlike Herbert his ministry was a long one: curacies in Chirk and Hanmer.
- She will return to complete her three year curacy (assistant to a training vicar), before having to look for a parish of her own to lead.