different between curate vs deacon

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

English

Etymology

From Old English diacon, from Ecclesiastical Latin diaconus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (di??konos, “servant, minister”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dea?con
• enPR: d?'k(?)n, IPA^(key): /?di?k?n/
• Rhymes: -i?k?n

Noun

deacon (plural deacons)

1. (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
2. (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
3. (Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
4. (Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
5. (Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
6. (freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
7. (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
8. (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
9. (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.

Hyponyms

• (Catholic): permanent deacon, transitional deacon

Coordinate terms

• deaconess

Derived terms

Related terms

• diaconal
• diaconate

Translations

See also

• deacon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaconate

Verb

deacon (third-person singular simple present deacons, present participle deaconing, simple past and past participle deaconed)

1. (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
2. (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
3. (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.

4. (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

Anagrams

• Canedo, Cedano, acnode, canoed