different between churchman vs curate

English

Etymology

From church +? man. Compare kirkman and German Kirchmann.

Noun

churchman (plural churchmen)

1. (obsolete) A churchwarden. [15th–16th c.]
2. A person (originally a man) of authority in a religious organization; a cleric. [from 16th c.]

   The bishop, a highly placed churchman, stated the religion's opinion.

3. A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England. [from 17th c.]
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 10:

     I replied, ‘I attended St. James's, St. Martin's, and St. Ann's, Soho;’—‘So,’ said he, ‘you are a churchman.’

   • 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, V:

     Thus they say the king of Great Britain, must maintain episcopacy in England, and presbyterianism in Scotland, whether he be a presbyterian as king William, a Lutheran as George I. or a true churchman as his present Majesty.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin c?r?tus, from Latin c?r?. Doublet of curato and curé.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kj????t/, /-??t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /?kj???t/

Noun

curate (plural curates)

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.

Derived terms

• curate's egg

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from curator.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj????e?t/
• (General American) enPR: kjo?o-r?t?, kjo?o?r?t, IPA^(key): /kj???e?t/, /?kj??e?t/

Verb

curate (third-person singular simple present curates, present participle curating, simple past and past participle curated)

1. (transitive) To act as a curator for.

   She curated the traveling exhibition.

   They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.

2. (transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
3. (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

• curated

Translations

See also

• curate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acture, acuter, cauter

Italian

Verb

curate

1. inflection of curare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• teucra

Latin

Verb

c?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?r?

References

• curate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette