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Webster 1913 Edition
Curate
Cu′rate
(kū′rā̍t)
, Noun.
[LL. , and cf.
curatus
, prop., one who is charged with the care (L. cura
) of souls. See Cure
, Noun.
Curé
] One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Hook.
All this the good old man performed alone,
He spared no pains, for
He spared no pains, for
curate
he had none. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Curate
CURATE
,Noun.
1.
A clergyman in the church of England, who is employed to perform divine service in the place of the incumbent, parson or vicar. He must be licenced by the bishop or ordinary, and having no fixed estate in the curacy, he may be removed at pleasure. But some curates are perpetual.2.
One employed to perform the duties of another.Definition 2024
curate
curate
English
Noun
curate (plural curates)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Back-formation from curator.
Verb
curate (third-person singular simple present curates, present participle curating, simple past and past participle curated)
- (transitive) To act as a curator for.
- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
- 2007 May 16, “TV Networks Woo Advertisers with Fall Line-Up”, in NPR_TalkNation:
- What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.
- 2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, in Poetry, volume 196, number 2, page 151-158:
- During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.
- 2010 November 28, Laura Compton, “Shopping sites redefine fashion”, in San Francisco Chronicle, Style, page G1:
- To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment.
- 2011 February, Seth Porges, “Digital Clinic”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 2, page 105:
- From there, click the Notifications tab and scroll down to Groups. This will bring up a page that allows you to curate what sort of Group-related activity results in e-mail alerts.
- 2012 June 10, “TechBits: Fab lets you shop, if not sort”, in Washington Post:
- Sometimes, you just want to shop for the pure joy of looking at cool things. And the app for Fab, a curated shopping site, is just the place to do that.
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- (intransitive) To work or act as a curator.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
curate
- second-person plural present tense of curare
- second-person plural imperative of curare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
cūrāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of cūrō
References
- curate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “curate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.