I'm not an expert but remembered that this online dictionary gave archaic meanings of words.

http://dictionary.reference.com/

4.  Archaic.
a.  made or prepared skillfully.
b. done with painstaking accuracy or attention to detail: a curious inquiry.
c.  careful; fastidious.
d.  marked by intricacy or subtlety.

Eve
Poole, Dorset, UK

Alex Stillwell wrote:
Do we have any experts on the old use of the word 'curious'. I seem to
remember that it had a slightly different meaning in the past,

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