单词 | curia |
释义 | curian. 1. Historical. a. One of the ten divisions into which each of the three ancient Roman tribes were divided; hence used of the divisions in other ancient cities. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > small tribe or division of tribe > ancient Roman curia1656 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. 209 Camillus should be called back again out of exile by a Ward-leet, or the suffrages of the Curiæ. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 56 The people..are first divided into Thirty Curia's or Parishes. 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxxi. 549 There is reason for believing that the genuine Carthaginian citizens were distributed into 3 tribes, 30 curiæ, and 300 gentes. Categories » b. The building belonging to a Roman curia, serving primarily as its place of worship. c. The senate-house at Rome. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in ancient world > in ancient Rome > place of curia1629 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B2v Lets to the Curia And though vnwillingly grieue our suffrages Before we are compeld. Thesaurus » Categories » d. A title given to the senate of ancient Italian towns, as distinguished from that of Rome. 2. A court of justice, counsel, or administration; used esp. of the royal and other courts of the feudal organization.In medieval Latin, curia was the word regularly employed to render French cour, court n.1, and it is so used by modern historians, esp. in Curia regis, the King's Curia, or King's Court, of the Norman kings of England. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > feudal courts Frankverytie1528 curia1706 c1178 Glanville 1 Hic incipit liber primus de placitis quae pertinent ad curiam regis.] 3. spec. the Curia: the Papal court.‘In the stricter sense, the authorities which administer the Papal Primacy; in a wider acceptation it embraces all the authorities and functionaries forming the immediate entourage or Court of the Pope’ ( Cath. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > papal court (Curia) > [noun] Court of Romec1290 pontifical1629 the Curia1840 Vatican1909 1840 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (Stanf.) (1847) I. 237 Still more important to the curia was the second article, concerning the plurality of benefices. 1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xix. 352 It was a curious coincidence that the great breach between England and Rome should be the result of a litigation in a matrimonial suit, one of the few points in which the Curia had continued to exercise any real jurisdiction. 4. Historical. a. Each of four electoral bodies in the Austrian constitution of 1861. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in Austria > specific curia1907 1907 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 2/1 How false was the idea given by the old Curia Parliament of what were the feelings and the aspirations of the people of Austria. 1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 26/1 (Austria). b. Each of three bodies, representing respectively the nobles, knights, and towns, into which the members of the estates of Bohemia were divided in 1446. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > division of in Bohemia curia1908 1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 2/1 He wished to see Bohemia divided into curias—Germans being governed by a German, and Czechs by a Czech curia. 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 126/2 (Bohemia). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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