单词 | curule |
释义 | curuleadj. 1. curule chair n. Roman History a chair or seat inlaid with ivory and shaped like a camp-stool with curved legs, used by the highest magistrates of Rome. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. ii. 54 When thou sawest them in the Court placed in their Curule Seats. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvi. 349 The curule chair was successively filled by eleven of the most illustrious senators. 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lxii. 533 The ivory curule chair of the procurator. 2. Privileged to sit in a curule chair; as curule magistrate, curule aedile n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [adjective] > curule (of magistrates) curule1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxxiii. 376 In the time of his curule Aedileship. 1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. xvi. 343 Every curule magistracy was supposed to convey something of kingly and therefore of sacred dignity. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes i. 3 (note) The curule aediles were first created at the same time as the urban praetor. 3. transferred. Pertaining to any high civic dignity or office, as that of a magistrate or mayor. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [adjective] magistratical1638 magisterial1646 magisterical1647 magistratic1653 curule1663 magistratial1774 magistrative1866 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 54 We that are wisely mounted higher Then Constables, in Curule wit. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 296 A wealthy burgher, who might one day..hold the curule chair itself. 1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 124 The way of the good apprentice..to the..curule seat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1600 |
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