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curatage|ˈkjʊərətɪdʒ| [f. curate + -age.] †1. The office of a curator or guardian; provision of curators or guardians. Obs.
1759State Papers in Ann. Reg. 255/2 The appointment of the tutelage and curatage for the King, during his minority. 2. Sometimes applied to the house or residence provided for a curate. [After vicarage.]
1879Standard 31 July (Births), At The Curatage, Biddenden, Staplehurst, Kent. 1893Crockford Clerical Directory Pref. 13 A very few clergymen date their letters from ‘The Curatage’..It can only be in very exceptional cases that the house inhabited by a Curate can have the very slightest claim for any sort of name..analogous to that of a vicarage or rectory; and even then it may be questioned whether..it should not be ‘Parsonage’. |