[ad. L. cūrātōria guardianship, f. cūrātor: see above.]
1. The office or charge of a curator; curatorship; chiefly in Roman and Sc. Law.
1560. Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. (1621), 46. That the Rector … be exempted from … any other charge … such as tutorie, curatorie, executorie, and the like.
1672. Sc. Acts Chas. II., c. 2. Giftes of Tutory or Curatory.
1862. Dalzel, Hist. Edin. Univ., I. 243. My curatory of the library distracts me.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, I. § 142. Some are under tutory or curatory, and others under neither of those guardianships.
2. A college of curators in a foreign university.
1834. Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1852), 360. The most illustrious scholars in the curatory [of Leyden].
