Missing curate found on ground outside front of chapel (11-3)

I believe the answer is:

unaccounted-for

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'missing' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'curate found on ground outside front of chapel' is the wordplay.
'ground' indicates an anagram ('grind' the letters into a new form).
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'front of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'chapel' is 'c'.
'curate'+'found'+'on'='curatefoundon'
'curatefoundon' anagrammed gives 'unacountedfor'.
'unacountedfor' going around 'c' is 'UNACCOUNTED-FOR'.

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