| 释义 |
† curiˈality Obs.
[ad. OF. curialité, med.L. cūriālitās, from cūriālis curial.]
a. What pertains to a court.
b. Courtliness.
c. = courtesy 3 and 4.
a1626Bacon Advice to Sir G. Villiers (R.), I come to the last of those things which I propounded, which is, the Court and Curiality. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 2 Either through curiosity or curiality, Christian Salutations are thought gross. 1641Heylin Help to Hist. (1671) 340 [The title of Earl Marshal] was only given them then by the courtesie or curiality of England. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 426 The said Earl..was not stiled the Kings Cousin..a Curiality, with which the more antient and less Frenchified times were unacquainted. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Courtesy or Curiality. |