curial

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French curial, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin curialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/

Adjective

curial (comparative more curial, superlative most curial)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
2. Pertaining to the papal curia.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 116:

     In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].

Noun

curial (plural curials)

1. A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.

Anagrams

• Ulrica, Uralic, lauric, uracil

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French

Adjective

curial (feminine curiale, masculine plural curiaux, feminine plural curiales)

1. curial (all senses)

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Spanish

Adjective

curial m or f (masculine and feminine plural curiales)

1. curial