Curia

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One of the ten primitive subdivisions of a tribe in early Rome, consisting of ten gentes.
  • noun. The assembly place of such a subdivision.
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  • noun. The Roman senate or any of the various buildings in which it met in republican Rome.
  • noun. The place of assembly of high councils in various Italian cities under Roman administration.
  • noun. The ensemble of central administrative and governmental services in imperial Rome.
  • noun. The central administration governing the Church.
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  • noun. A medieval assembly or council.
  • noun. A medieval royal court of justice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Roman antiquity: One of the divisions of the citizens of Rome, with reference to locality. The number of the curiƦ is given as thirty, but the original number was smaller.
  • noun. The building in which a curia met for worship or public deliberation. The building in which the senate held its deliberations. A title given to the senate of any one of the Italian cities, as distinguished from the Roman senate.
  • noun. In medieval legal use, a court, either judicial, administrative, or legislative; a court of justice.
  • noun. Specifically, in modern use, the court of the papal see.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
  • noun. The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
  • noun. The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
  • noun. The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
  • noun. Any court of justice.
  • noun. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
  • noun. The Roman senate during the republic
  • noun. Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church
  • Word Usage
    "And as such the Jews were shy of conversing with him, and expected Christ should be so; but he shows that, being a true penitent, he is become rectus in curia -- upright in court, as good a son of Abraham as if he had never been an publican, which therefore ought not to be mentioned against him."
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