a person authorized to conduct religious worship

One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

A clergyman or an assistant minister.

One who has the cure or care of souls, so in Pr. Bk.: an inferior clergyman in the Church of England who assists a rector or vicar in the discharge of his duties.

A clergyman who performs duties for a rector or vicar.

A rector's or a vicar's assistant.

A clergyman in the Church of England appointed to assist the incumbent of a parish in his duties, stipendiary, as dependent on the incumbent, and perpetual, as independent; one who has the cure of souls.

One who has the cure or care of souls; a clergyman; one who assists a beneficed clergyman in spiritual duties: a perpetual curate, one not removable at pleasure, as the others are; the incumbent of a district taken from a rectory or vicarage.

I got a parson to witness it, a kind of curate man, a poor creature. – The Northern Iron 1907 by George A. Birmingham

While Mr. Strangway remains curate here, there must be no talk about him and his affairs. – The Fourth Series Plays, Complete by John Galsworthy

" So do I," returned the curate. – Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

I shall now endeavour to give the reader a description of the curate of the plain; but he should clearly understand that I do not present this character to him as the general standard of ecclesiastical excellence,- quite the contrary; I am sorry to say I think it an exception. – Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

I would see you in, but I've got a woman to see before church time, and I'm short of a curate, so I must be sharp to the hour. – Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge

But why did the curate refuse to say anything? – Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert George Jenkins

When at length his curate hinted to him what was being said, he had so clearly formulated his own theory of Mrs. Quarrier's death that only the strongest evidence would have led him to reconsider it. – Denzil Quarrier by George Gissing

" Indeed, I assure you-" exclaimed the curate. – By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn

" I suppose I shall have to look for another curate," said the Rector. – The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

" I do, I know I do," said the curate earnestly. – Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald

The curate has said that he'll beat me to death if the money doesn't appear, and if I had stolen it I could make it appear. – The Social Cancer A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But I don't want to try it on James if he's anything like what he was as a curate." – Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

At last, with his usual fatality, the curate fixed the grand practice for the Saturday evenings that were Rachel's great days for instruction in the three R's, and for a sort of popular lecture. – The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge

This little curate had had a hard time, though his mission was an easy one. – The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

And the curate took the glass from Father John. – The Untilled Field by George Moore

The peril I mean is that your sister Nelly will marry the curate. – The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

In the early summer, before Mr. Warrender died, a new curate had come to Underwood. – A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Who is the fat curate? – The Social Cancer A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal