curat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkjʊəɹət/
Noun
curat (plural curats)
- (obsolete) A cuirass or breastplate.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:[1]
- The wicked shaft, guyded through th'ayrie wyde
By some bad spirit that it to mischiefe bore,
Stayd not, till through his curat it did glyde
- Obsolete spelling of curate
- 1879, Joseph Irving, The Book of Dumbartonshire::
- Bishop Burnet will, I hope, give a tolerable account of the is the curat.
See also
- de minimis non curat lex (etymologically unrelated term)
References
- “curat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Catalan
Participle
curat (feminine curada, masculine plural curats, feminine plural curades)
- past participle of curar
Further reading
- “curat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈrat/
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Adjective
curat m or n (feminine singular curată, masculine plural curați, feminine and neuter plural curate)
Declension
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