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curatorial

curatorial \curatorial\ adj. of or pertaining to curator; as, curatorial duties.

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curatorial

a. Of or relating to a curator.

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curatorial

adj. of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator; "curatorial duties"

Usage examples of "curatorial".

Too bad, she thought, that her curatorial appointment at the Museum was too recent for her to refuse.

Humanities have clearly slid into the terminally curatorial, forsaking claim to knowledge.

I shed the curatorial, began to sense the impenetrable mechanism of mystery.

As the years passed, he seemed to grow more and more absorbed in his own studies, and I was forced to take on much of the curatorial duties for the Cabinet myself.

Leng took an interest in it, although it was certainly the poorest curatorial appointment among the cabinets of curiosities.

I arrived early and waited in the foyer of the Curatorial Towers where most of the offices of the British Columbia Provincial Museum are located.

Each projectile point we subjected to rigorous examination and recording, drawing each projectile point on a special form and recording its catalog number along with a summary of a host of other information regarding where it was found and its curatorial history.

Others had been subjected to stringent and destructive curatorial treatments and analytical techniques that had left their surfaces less natural.

In my role as museum curator I was convinced of the need for sound curatorial procedures that would guard against contamination, destruction, or modification of specimens as they were received from the field.

It clearly underscored the importance of museum collections and the need for sound curatorial procedures that guard against contamination, destruction, or modification of specimens as they are received from the field.

The only living intelligence within the ocean lay in its own curatorial system.

Like most ordinary scientists, Anchee has a fanatically curatorial attitude toward data.

The good reverend must have had the strongest curatorial instincts of the three.

Leng took an interest in it, although it was certainly the poorest curatorial appointment among the cabinets of curiosities.