The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curial
Curial \Cu"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n. A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
Wiktionary
curial
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Pertaining to a court; courtly. 2 Pertaining to the papal curia. n. A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
Usage examples of "curial".
It was easy to picture him as a short, bespectacled physics teacher, one whose utter lack of physical assurance would prompt such curial devotion to the rubrics of the actual.