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Section of the remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LIV. Title and explanatory list with letters in the bottom margin.
Section of the remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LIV. Title and explanatory list with letters in the bottom margin.
  1. (n) Curia
    (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church
Illustrations
Remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian): cornice and part of a column. Title above. Numbered top right: LVI / Tom. IV.
Remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian): cornice and part of a column. Title above. Numbered top right: LVI / Tom. IV.
Remnants and details of stones from the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Title top center. Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LV. Glossary of letters in the bottom margin.
Remnants and details of stones from the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Title top center. Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LV. Glossary of letters in the bottom margin.
Details of remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LV. Title above and explanatory list with letters in the bottom margin.
Details of remains of the Curia Hostilia in Rome (identified in the print as the menagerie of Emperor Domitian). Numbered top left: Tom. IV. Numbered top right: LV. Title above and explanatory list with letters in the bottom margin.
Building where the Roman citizens and the Roman Curia came together. The print is part of an album.
Building where the Roman citizens and the Roman Curia came together. The print is part of an album.
View of the Roman Forum with the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Curia Julia, here incorrectly called the temple of Saturn. In between, the church dedicated to Saint Martina, where the Santi Luca e Martina now stands. In the bottom margin four lines of text in Italian. The print is part of an album.
View of the Roman Forum with the Arch of Septimius Severus and the Curia Julia, here incorrectly called the temple of Saturn. In between, the church dedicated to Saint Martina, where the Santi Luca e Martina now stands. In the bottom margin four lines of text in Italian. The print is part of an album.
The Curia Hostilia, the first senate building in the city of Rome. Text in Latin in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
The Curia Hostilia, the first senate building in the city of Rome. Text in Latin in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
The Curia Saliorum in Rome, the headquarters of the priests of the Palatine. Text in Latin in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
The Curia Saliorum in Rome, the headquarters of the priests of the Palatine. Text in Latin in the bottom margin. The print is part of an album.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Curia
    (Law) Any court of justice.
  2. Curia
    (Rom. Antiq) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
  3. Curia
    (Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
  4. Curia
    (Rom. Antiq) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
  5. Curia
    (Rom. Antiq) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
  6. Curia
    The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) curia
    In Roman antiquity: One of the divisions of the citizens of Rome, with reference to locality. The number of the curiæ is given as thirty, but the original number was smaller.
  2. (n) curia
    The building in which a curia met for worship or public deliberation. The building in which the senate held its deliberations. A title given to the senate of any one of the Italian cities, as distinguished from the Roman senate.
  3. (n) curia
    In medieval legal use, a court, either judicial, administrative, or legislative; a court of justice. In the Norman period of English history the Curia Regis was an assembly which the king was bound to consult on important state matters, and whose consent was necessary for the enactment of laws, the imposition of extraordinary taxes, etc. It consisted nominally of the tenants in chief, but practically it was much more limited. Originally the Curia Regis and the Exchequer were composed of the same persons. From the Curia Regis there developed later the Ordinary Council or Privy Council, and the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas. Also Aula Regia or Regis.
  4. (n) curia
    Specifically, in modern use, the court of the papal see.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Curia
    kū′ri-a one of the ten divisions of a Roman tribe: a building in which the senate met, a provincial senate: a court, legislative or judicial: the court of the papal see
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L.

Usage in the news

NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION FILES AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF WITH US SUPREME COURT ON THE NEED FOR DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION. nysba.org

The Cantor Fitzgerald Web site has listed memorial services for about 200 people recently, but one name leaps out: "Larry (the Clam) Curia ". nytimes.com

Sandro Magister has just posted a column on his website that is highly critical of the Curia's handling of the lifting of the excommunications of the SSPX bishops. commonwealmagazine.org

On May 27, 2005 AGA joined an amici curiae brief, or a friend of the court brief, with nine other trade associations in New Mexico v General Electric in support of the defendants to oppose natural resource damages for site cleanups. aga.org

At left is Cardinal Alberto di Jorio, a member of the Vatican Curia. ashingtontimes.com

Monterroso's team believes it can definitively point to the Curia of Pompey as Caesar 's last stand by comparing the dig site with historical texts. globalpost.com

On order of the Court, the motion for leave to file brief amicus curiae is GRANTED. milawyersweekly.com

Actively involved in international associations promoting the lay apostolate, she was the first woman to hold a significant position in the Roman Curia. commonwealmagazine.org

Had filed amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs. car.org

1 items are tagged with Curia. osv.com

NACDL also provides assistance to our members through the Lawyers' Assistance Strike Force, Ethics Advisory Committee & Hotline, and members and non-members alike may petition the Amicus Curiae Committee for help with your case. nacdl.org

Pope Benedict XVI held a meeting this morning with heads of the various dicasteries of the Roman Curia and will be meeting six other cardinals later this evening. ncregister.com

Usage in literature

A COMMENDATION OF CURIA'S CHILDREN, ETC. "The New Testament" by Various

Clergy and laity were thus allied against the encroachments of the Roman Curia. "A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)" by Leopold von Ranke

For myself, certainly I have found myself in a different atmosphere, when I have left the Curia for the Pope himself. "The History of Freedom" by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The theory of the papal supremacy held by the Curia was thus at least called in question. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3" by Various

But he literally allowed them to put the dagger to his throat in the Curia, and said, No. "A Struggle for Rome, v. 1" by Felix Dahn

He was made protector of England in the Roman curia; and in 1524 Henry VIII. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2" by Various

The connecting link, the phratry, contained ten gentes and was called curia. "The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State" by Frederick Engels

Visa, De Curia J. Manassei. "The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed" by R. C. Dallas

Gymnasius added to his fame and obtained universal esteem in the Curia. "The Popes and Science" by James J. Walsh

Auditor is also the designation of certain officials of the Roman curia. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 8" by Various