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curial, a. and n.|ˈkjʊərɪəl|
[a. F. curial, -ale adj., curiale n., ad. L. cūriāl-is, f. cūria.]
A. adj.
†1. Of or pertaining to a royal court; having the manners befitting a court; courtly. Obs.
1478Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 45 And other fourmes curiall after the booke of urbanitie. 1484Caxton Curiall 1 The lyf Curiall whyche thou desirest. Ibid. 3 The maner of the peple curyall or courtly. 1520St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 56 To..fall to more curiall, discrete, and clenly order, than ever they used before. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 793 And to my sisteris, and Ladyis curiall.
2. Of or pertaining to a curia:
a. of an ancient Roman or an Italian curia;
b. of a judicial, administrative, or other court;
c. of the papal Curia.
1677Govt. Venice 280 The Vicar of the Podestat, or some other Curial Officer, is permitted to go in their stead. 1864A. J. Horwood Year Bks. 32–3 Edw. I, Introd. 19 note, In the celebrated Pinenden plea..there is no appearance of curial formalities being observed. 1882Sat. Rev. 18 Mar. 323 The present Pope, so far as he is left untrammelled by the exigencies of conventional or curial etiquette.
B. n.
†1. A member of a court; a courtier. Obs.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 77 Thou maryd shal bene..To sum curyal of ryht gret dignite.
2. A member of an ancient Roman or an Italian curia.
1677Govt. Venice 280 If the Curial should become a Councellor, the Assistance..would degenerate into Counsel. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome viii. 415 Each municipality was made responsible in the person of its curials, or chief officers..for its own amount of taxation. 1873G. W. Kitchin Hist. France i. vi. I. 52 The curials (or members of the civil municipality) lost their authority.
†3. A treatise on the Court. Obs.
The title given to the treatise or letter of Alain Chartier translated by Caxton.
1484Caxton Curiall 6 Thus endeth the Curial made by Maystre Alain Charretier. Translated thus in Englysshe by Wylliam Caxton. 1822K. Digby Broadst. Hon. (1846) 327 What wisdom is in this sentence of Alain Chartier in his Curial! |