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A cuirass or breastplate. [Obs.] Spenser.

rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

A curacy.

Cure; healing. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.

One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.

The office of a curator.

A woman who cures.

rement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of taming. [Obs.] Ray.

Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc. The expression is plainly inaccurate. Bp. Hurd.

In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.

The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse. Sir J. Herschel.

t, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy. Procuration money (Law), money paid for procuring a loan. Blackstone.

the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. Procurator fiscal (Scots Law), public prosecutor, or district attorney.

Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.