curacy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cu=ra=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

curacy, n. [See Cure, Curate.].

 The office or employment of a curate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

curacy, n. (pl. -ies) a curate's office or the tenure of it.

THESAURUS

curacy

abbacy, advowson, archbishopric, archdeaconry, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, benefice, bishopdom, bishopric, canonicate, canonry, cardinalship, care of souls, chaplaincy, chaplainship, charge, cure, deaconry, deaconship, deanery, deanship, episcopacy, episcopate, glebe, incumbency, living, pastorate, pastorship, prebend, prebendaryship, prelacy, prelateship, prelature, presbyterate, presbytery, primacy, rectorate, rectorship, rectory, vicarage, vicariate, vicarship

ROGET THESAURUS

curacy

Churchdom

N church, churchdom, ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church, clericalism, sacerdotalism, episcopalianism, ultramontanism, theocracy, ecclesiology, ecclesiologist, priestcraft, odium theologicum, monachism, monachy, monasticism, monkhood, pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, prelacy, bishopric, bishopdom, episcopate, episcopacy, see, diocese, deanery, stall, canonry, canonicate, prebend, prebendaryship, benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure, rectorship, vicariate, vicarship, deaconry, deaconship, curacy, chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, abbacy, presbytery, holy orders, ordination, institution, consecration, induction, reading in, preferment, translation, presentation, popedom, the Vatican, the apostolic see, religious sects, council, conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter, vestry, sanhedrim, conge d'elire, ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic, hierarchical, archiepiscopal, episcopal, episcopalian, canonical, monastic, monachal, monkish, abbatial, abbatical, Anglican, pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish, ultramontane, priest-ridden.