[L. cūrātrix, fem. of cūrātor guardian, etc., in F. curatrice. Cudworth uses it in a sense taken from the medical sense of cūrāre to CURE.]
† 1. A female healer or curer. Obs. nonce-wd.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 167. That Nature of Hippocrates, that is the Curatrix of Diseases.
2. A female curator or guardian.
1846. in Worcester; whence in later Dicts.
