Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cure; healing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Cure; healing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of curating, of organizing and maintaining a collection of artworks or artifacts.
  • noun The act of curing or healing.
  • noun databases The manual updating of information in a database.

Etymologies

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curate +‎ -ion or from Latin curatio

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