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单词 curule
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curuleadj.

Brit. /ˈkjʊər(j)uːl/, U.S. /ˈkjuˌrul/
Etymology: < Latin curūlis, currūlis, supposed to be < currus chariot. French curule.
1. curule chair n. Roman History a chair or seat inlaid with ivory and shaped like a camp-stool with curved legs, used by the highest magistrates of Rome.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. ii. 54 When thou sawest them in the Court placed in their Curule Seats.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvi. 349 The curule chair was successively filled by eleven of the most illustrious senators.
1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lxii. 533 The ivory curule chair of the procurator.
2. Privileged to sit in a curule chair; as curule magistrate, curule aedile n. and adj.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > Roman magistrates and officials > [adjective] > curule (of magistrates)
curule1600
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxxiii. 376 In the time of his curule Aedileship.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. xvi. 343 Every curule magistracy was supposed to convey something of kingly and therefore of sacred dignity.
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes i. 3 (note) The curule aediles were first created at the same time as the urban praetor.
3. transferred. Pertaining to any high civic dignity or office, as that of a magistrate or mayor.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [adjective]
magistratical1638
magisterial1646
magisterical1647
magistratic1653
curule1663
magistratial1774
magistrative1866
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 54 We that are wisely mounted higher Then Constables, in Curule wit.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 296 A wealthy burgher, who might one day..hold the curule chair itself.
1882 W. B. Weeden Social Law Labor 124 The way of the good apprentice..to the..curule seat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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