The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curia \Cu"ri*a\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. Curle (-?). [L.]
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(Rom. Antiq.)
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
(Middle Ages) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
--Burrill.(Law) Any court of justice.
The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Usage examples of "curle".
In between, a slender, almost lifelike dragon curled around the barrel of the scepter, its eyes two glowing gems.
One was green, and one amber and at the tip of its curling tail was yet another gem-stone, this one ale-brown in hue.
A sudden spasm took him, and he quivered like a dry, curled leaf rocks in winds that will whip it away in a moment.
The huge human face was fading, the ghostly tresses curling and whipping like restless snakes as it seemed to draw slightly away from the Coronal's garden.
Delmuth told Elminster, as elven mantle and human shield struck sparks from each other, and yet another mighty old elven spell curled away into harmless smoke.
He was standing in a little hollow in a great waste of rock, with foul streams of gas curling around him, burning his legs as they sighed past.
His salt-and-pepper beard curled in the wind of his journeying.
His lady shook her head, long hair stirring and curling about her shoulders of its own accord, moved by the awakening An within her.
A blue-white aura of power curled about her long hair and spilled from her brimming eyes.
From one courtier, a tiny, hastily stifled shriek ran around the throne room as smoke curled up from the floor tile that bore the brunt of the Simbul's regard.
The air became alive with tiny silver lances and curling, half-seen dragons.
His hand was on her breast, the magic that had healed and restored her curling up from his fingers.
He found a dark cavern that was undisturbed as yet, where the memories were covered with the dust and cobwebs of long neglect, curled up therein, and let Avernus fade away from him as Toril was beginning to do.
Her shapely legs ended in cloven hooves, a slender barbed tail curling in her wake.
The smoke crawled along the ground toward them, and curled around Talat’s white ankles, and Talat stamped and shivered but did not move, and the dragon grinned a little more.