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noun a person authorized to conduct religious worship
originBorrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus (“one who has been curated, a curate”), a substantivation of the perfect passive participle of cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0