Definition of Curia

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church.


Definition of Curia

1. n. One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

Definition of Curia

1. Proper noun. The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church. ¹

2. Noun. (historical) Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome ¹

3. Noun. (historical) The Roman senate during the republic ¹

4. Noun. (historical) Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Curia

1. a court of justice [n -RIAE] : CURIAL [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curia

Cupressus guadalupensis
Cupressus lusitanica
Cupressus macrocarpa
Cupressus pigmaea
Cupressus sempervirens
Cuprimine
Cuquenan
Cuquenan Falls
Curaçao
Curaçaoan
Curculionidae
Curcuma
Curcuma domestica
Curcuma longa
Curetonian
Curia (current term)
Curie
Curie's law
Curie point
Curie points
Curie temperature
Curietherapy
Curitiba
Curling's ulcer
Curragh
Currer Bell
Curry–Howard correspondence
Curschmann's disease
Cursorius

Literary usage of Curia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"Under the organizing hand of Bishop Roger the curia was developed into a strong ... Under the administration of Roger the financial department of the curia— ..."

2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Our course, after wee ite off the land, alongst by Abba del Curia, ... And Abba del Curia a long narrow ragged Hand, may be in length East and ..."

3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"2 The civil pleas of the crown determined in the Curia Regis are pleas concerning baronies, the advowsons of churches, status, dower, the non- observance of ..."

4. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"Ch. J. Br. Curia Claud, pi. 2. in the land cites 22 H. 6, 7, 8. nmmm-- train damage ... but he (hall not have a curia ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"It was the emphatic testimony of interested observers that the Roman Curia, in its immovable adherence to its evil ways, was the real cause of the uprising. ..."

6. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"Thus in 1178 it was expressly said that the questions which could not be settled by the five judges who should remain at the Curia Regis, ..."

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