curatorium

curatorium (plural curatoriums or curatoria)

1. A board of curators or advisory board, in certain European institutions.
   • 1841, William Howitt, The Student-Life of Germany:

     Their successors are appointed from the curatorium—the office of the curator. Their period of office is for a year.

   • 1909, New South Wales. Public Instruction Dept. Technical Education Branch, John L. Bruce, A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales:

     In Germany the Continuation School for Girls may be divided into two classes, namely, those under Municipal control, and those established by Unions or "Curatoriums."

   • 1959, International Bureau of Education, Publication, volumes 214-220, page 202:

     In the Ministry of Education there is a department for special education and child welfare, with sections and sub-sections in the curatoriums.

   • 1995, John C. Torpey, Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and its Legacy:

     The curatorium's founding statement reiterated the activists' previously expressed desire for a new "all-German" constitution taking the best from both the Basic Law and the Round Table's draft constitution.

Borrowed from Latin curatorium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌky.raːˈtoː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: cu‧ra‧to‧ri‧um

curatorium n (plural curatoria)

1. board of curators