curarine (korarin)

[ curarization (kö-rä-ri-zā'shon), n. [ curarize (kö-rä'rīz), v. t.; pret. and pp. cur a rized, ppr. curarizing. [ cur açao.] 1. One of the large gallinaceous South American birds of the genera Crax and Pauxi, and the subfamily Cracine. There are in all upward of 12 species. The best-known, and that to which the name was first applied, is the cur açao-bird or crested cura ow, Crax a lector, of a greenish-black color with a white crest, inhabiting northerly parts of South America. The red cura ow is Crax rubra; the galeated cura ow or IMG:content-1823.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] Also spelled carasow , cara ow , and also called hocco , mit up orang a , and by other names. curat1t, n. curat2t, n. [Also curate, curiet , appar. based on ML. curatia , a cuira : see cuira , and cf. OF. cuiret, undre ed leather, from same ult. source.] A cuira . Enchasing on their curats with my blade, That none so fair as fair Angelica. Greene, Orlando Furioso. The mastiffs fierce that hunt the bristled boar Are harne ed with curats light and strong. John Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 173). curatel (kūrāt), n. [ curat = OFries. ku rit , curat us (>It. curato = F. curé ), a priest, curate, prop. adj., having to do with the cure of souls, cur a , cure, care: see cure , n.] 1. According to former use, one who has the cure of souls; a priest; a minister. When thou shalt be shriven of thy curat, tell him eke all the sinnes that thou hast don sith thou were laste shriven. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary curate Send down upon our Bishops, and Curates , and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace. Book of Common Prayer [Eng.], Prayer for Clergy and [People. The various kinds of beneficed parochial clergy, such as rectors, vicars, and all other persons who are now styled in common parlance incumbents, and who in old times were generally known as curates , from their having cure of souls. J. C. Jeaffreson, Book about the Clergy, I. 43. 2. In the Church of England, and in the Irish Roman Catholic Church, a clergyman employed under the incumbent (whether rector or vicar), either as a istant in the same church or in a chapel within the parish and connected with the church. The curate is the priest of lowest degree in the Church of England; he must be licensed by the bishop or ordinary. The term is now in use in the United States. 3t. A guardian; a protector. - Perpetual curate, in Eng. eccles, law, formerly, a curate of a parish in which there was neither rector nor vicar, and the benefice of which was in po e ion and control of a layman. Perpetual curacies have since 1868 been abolished, every incumbent of a church (not a rector) who is entitled to perform marriages, etc., and to appropriate the fees, being now deemed a vicar and his benefice a vicarage. - Stipendiary curate, in the Church of England, a curate who is hired by the rector or vicar to serve for him, and may be removed at pleasure.