Relating to or characteristic of curialists or the practice of collecting and studying curiosities with scholarly attention.
Derived from 'curialist' with the adjectival suffix '-ic'. This word reflects the professionalization of curiosity collecting during the Enlightenment period.
The shift from random hoarding to 'curialistic' collection methods marked a turning point when curiosity itself became a legitimate science rather than just rich people being weird.
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