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A curacy is a church job, and also the stretch of time someone spends in that job. The person is a curate: in the Church of England and similar churches, usually a priest who is still learning the work, helping the main priest of a parish. People say “his first curacy” the way teachers say “her first post” — it names a stage, not a forever title. You will almost only hear this in church talk, church history, or rather formal writing. It is not a medicine word, though actually an older church use of “cure” meant the care of a group of souls, the people a priest looks after. Everyday English has almost dropped “curacy”; if a student never meets it outside a dictionary, that is normal.
助理牧師職(聖公會等教會裡,助理牧師的職位或任期)
組成From curate + -acy (a noun ending for a state or office, as in privacy).
同家族的字
- curatea curacy is the job, or the years, of being a curate
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
curacynoun
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The office or position of a curate.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。