[f. CURATOR + -SHIP.] The office or position of a curator.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 246. If the names be artificiall, not naturall, as to use proctorship, for curatorship.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 186. They … are exempted … from Guardianships, Curatorships and the like.
1861. Wilson & Geikie, Mem. E. Forbes, xi. 351. His acceptance of the Curatorship of the Zoological Society.
