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21 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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curate
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Definition:One who has the cure souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicarNoah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---1. an assistant rector or vicar2. a parish priesttext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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He would not even have seen after their going to church on Sundays, only Joseph and the curate reprimanded his carelessness when they absented themselves; and that reminded him to order Heathcliff a flogging, and Catherine a fast from dinner or supper.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Blackadder: Ah. Well, let's start with the pardons, shall we?
Baldrick: Right. Well, this is a fair selection. Basically, you seem to get what you pay for. They run all the way from this one, which is a pardon for talking with your mouth full, signed by an apprentice curate in Tewkesbury.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Archbishop
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Good choice for a second son, you know; his younger brother followed tradition as well by becoming a curate, but I haven’t found out much about him yet.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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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.
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