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Bacon.


||Cu"ri*a (k?"r?-?), n.; pl.
Curle (-&?;). [L.] 1. (Rom.
Antiq.)
(a) One of the thirty parts into
which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

(b) The place of assembly of one of these
divisions.
(c) The place where the
meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.


2. (Middle Ages) The court of a
sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his
household.
Burrill.


3. (Law) Any court of
justice.


4. The Roman See in its temporal aspects,
including all the machinery of administration; -- called also
curia Romana.


Cu"ri*a*lism
(kū"r&ibreve;*&adot;*l&ibreve;?z'm), n.
The view or doctrine of the ultramontane party in the Latin
Church.
Gladstone.


Cu"ri*a*list (k?"r?-?-l?st), n.
One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin
Church.
Shipley.


Cu`ri*a*lis"tic (-l?s"t?k), a. [L.
curialis belonging to the imperial court, fr.
curia, LL.


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