CURACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curacy mean? 

• CURACY (noun)
  The noun CURACY has 1 sense:

1. the position of a curate

  Familiarity information: CURACY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position of a curate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("curacy" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

 Context examples 

He was in orders; and having a curacy in the neighbourhood, where residence was not required, lived at his father's house, only two miles from Uppercross.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They will tell me I should write to the Doctor, to get Edward the curacy of his new living.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On that same occasion I learned, for the first time, from Miss Abbot's communications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered the match beneath her; that my grandfather Reed was so irritated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing town where his curacy was situated, and where that disease was then prevalent: that my mother took the infection from him, and both died within a month of each other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had the curacy of Monkford, you know, Sir Walter, some time back, for two or three years.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I wonder what curacy he will get!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The advantage of his having to come only to Uppercross, instead of going six miles another way; of his having, in every respect, a better curacy; of his belonging to their dear Dr Shirley, and of dear, good Dr Shirley's being relieved from the duty which he could no longer get through without most injurious fatigue, had been a great deal, even to Louisa, but had been almost everything to Henrietta.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And after thinking it all over and over again, he said, it seemed to him as if, now he had no fortune, and no nothing at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement, because it must be for her loss, for he had nothing but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had some thoughts, he could get nothing but a curacy, and how was they to live upon that?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It had then seemed the object nearest her heart, that Dr Shirley, the rector, who for more than forty years had been zealously discharging all the duties of his office, but was now growing too infirm for many of them, should be quite fixed on engaging a curate; should make his curacy quite as good as he could afford, and should give Charles Hayter the promise of it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Wait for his having a living!—ay, we all know how THAT will end:—they will wait a twelvemonth, and finding no good comes of it, will set down upon a curacy of fifty pounds a-year, with the interest of his two thousand pounds, and what little matter Mr. Steele and Mr. Pratt can give her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had been absent only two Sundays, and when they parted, had left her interested, even to the height of his wishes, in his prospect of soon quitting his present curacy, and obtaining that of Uppercross instead.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)