Examples of curate

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The endresult, however, is somewhat of a curate's egg.
I found this an intriguing book to read, but like the curate's egg, it tended to be good in parts.
The names of the curates are found in the wills proved in the 1530s.
Of greater importance to the town must have been the work of curates.
They are invaluable for periods for which registers and subscription books have not survived and for identifying further curates.
Magistrates and collectors of revenue are now no longer acquainted with their districts, bishops with their dioceses, or curates with their parishes.
Like the majority of such collections, this is something of a curate's egg.
Most of the time he left his two curates to get on with their thing.
Their claim to authority was symbolised by the carefully constructed ritual by which curates were installed in their parish and introduced into the community.
Like the apocryphal curate's egg, the book is fascinating reading in parts, stupefyingly dull in others.
The result is something of a mish-mash; a real curate's egg of a book.
The final essay is the devilled embryo in the curate's egg.
The humorists needed to find new caricatures for the clergy; the older, fox-hunting parson was replaced by fanatic young curates.
How important was the role of assistant curates about whom the records show so little ?
They and licensing books also record the appointment, or licensing, of unbeneficed clergy or curates and preachers, appointments of schoolmasters, resignations, and other similar events.
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