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curule, a.|ˈkjʊər(j)uːl|
[ad. L. curūl-is, currūlis, supposed to be f. curru-s chariot. F. curule.]
1. Rom. Antiq. curule chair: a chair or seat inlaid with ivory and shaped like a camp-stool with curved legs, used by the highest magistrates of Rome.
1695Ld. Preston Boeth. ii. 54 When thou sawest them in the Court placed in their Curule Seats. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xxxvi. 349 The curule chair was successively filled by eleven of the most illustrious senators. 1877Geikie Christ lxii. 758 The ivory curule chair of the procurator.
2. Privileged to sit in a curule chair; as curule magistrate, curule ædile (q.v.).
1600Holland Livy x. xxxiii. 376 In the time of his curule Aedileship. 1838Arnold Hist. Rome I. xvi. 343 Every curule magistracy was supposed to convey something of kingly and therefore of sacred dignity. 1880Muirhead Gaius i. §6 note, The curule aediles were first created at the same time as the urban praetor.
3. transf. Pertaining to any high civic dignity or office, as that of a magistrate or mayor.
1663Butler Hud. i. i. 715 We that are merely mounted higher Than Constables in Curule Wit. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, A wealthy burgher, who might one day..hold the curule chair itself. 1882W. B. Weeden Soc. Law Labor 124 The way of the good apprentice..to the..curule seat. |