curia
IPA: kjˈʊriʌ
noun
- (historical) Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
- (historical) The Roman senate during the republic
- (historical) Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice
- The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Examples of "curia" in Sentences
- It was the largest of all the curia built.
- Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia.
- It is also sometimes termed in chambers or in curia.
- It is also sometimes termed in chambers or in curia .
- A statement like that is customary in the roman curia.
- The central staff of the General is known as the Curia.
- It was abolished in the reforms of the Papal Curia of 1968.
- The Curia are an essential and functional part of the Church.
- In fact the Curia Julia is the third incarnation of this curia.
- It was probably in the curia that the senate is recorded as meeting.
- GALLAGHER: Well, the highest levels, of course, being in the curia, which is the Vatican administration.
- They are recti in curia -- right in court; no sin that ever they have been guilty of shall come against them, to condemn them.
- The greatest interest of the Archbishop and the curia was their supremacy, which was acquired and maintained by such commercial dealings.
- He not only has his sins pardoned, and is furnished with grace sufficient for himself, but, as rectus in curia -- acquitted in court, he is restored to his former honours and trusts.
- The court of the king, usually known as the curia regis, consisting as it did of magnates, royal vassals, and court officials (mainly chosen from the baronage), was essentially feudal in spirit and tradition.
- The _Comitia Centuriata_ elected the magistrates and made laws, and formed the highest court of appeal, but all its decisions had to be sanctioned by the curiae, although in course of time the curia was a formality.
- He is at present an escaped prisoner, the law has an awkward claim upon him; he must be placed rectus in curia, that is the first object; for which purpose, Colonel, I will accompany you in your carriage down to Hazlewood House.
- Nor should it be in the opposite process, which was equally easy, as when the Saxon chronicler, led by the superficial resemblance and overlooking the great institutional difference, called the curia of William by the Saxon name of witenagemot.
- At this time, basically all the cardinals and bishops, the senior positions in the curia, which is basically the government of the Vatican if you will, basically lose their jobs including the all-powerful secretary of state, number two until a few moments ago in the Vatican.
- And as such the Jews were shy of conversing with him, and expected Christ should be so; but he shows that, being a true penitent, he is become rectus in curia -- upright in court, as good a son of Abraham as if he had never been an publican, which therefore ought not to be mentioned against him.
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