Definition of Curias

1. curia [n] - See also: curia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curias

curettes
curetting
curf
curfew
curfewed
curfews
curfs
curiae
curial
curialism
curialist
curialistic
curialists
curialities
curiality
curias (current term)
curie
curie temperature
curienite
curies
curiet
curiets
curing
curing light
curio
curiologic
curios
curiosities
curiosity

Literary usage of Curias

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

1. History of Liberty by Samuel Eliot (1853)
"Each tribe was divided into ten curias; each of the curias into ten Gentes, or Names, as they may be styled, because they were formed of kindred names ..."

2. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"Gentes and curias. — In Rome, as in Greece, we find above the family larger blood units, ... The three hundred clans were grouped in thirty curias ..."

3. The Roman History: From the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1759)
"JC curias Dentatus was now ... curias ordered his effects to be fold, and, upon his appealing to the Tribunes, he fold * need of fuch members as ..."

4. Ancient History to the Death of Charlemagne by Willis Mason West (1902)
"The Gentes and curias. — In Rome, as in Greece, we find above the family larger blood units, — the clans, or gentes. Originally, each clan must have been ..."

5. History of Liberty by Samuel Eliot (1853)
"Eaeh tribe was divided into ten curias ; eaeh of the curias into ten Gentes, or Names, as they may be styled, ..."

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