Definition of curias Curias
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What does curias mean?
Part of speech
🔤- curias, noun, plural of curia.
WordNet
NounSingular: curium |
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| curia - (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church | ||
| governing body, governance, administration, brass, establishment, organisation, organization the act of meting out justice according to the law | ||
| church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church, roman catholic the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- curia (n.)
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. - curia (n.)
The place of assembly of one of these divisions. - curia (n.)
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. - curia (n.)
The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. - curia (n.)
Any court of justice. - curia (n.)
The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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curia
kū′ri-a, n. one of the ten divisions of a Roman tribe: a building in which the senate met, a provincial senate: a court, legislative or judicial: the court of the papal see.—ns. Cū′rialism; Cū′rialist.—adj. Curialist′ic. [L.]
