curule

American  

[kyoor-ool] / ˈkyʊər ul /

adjective

1. privileged to sit in a curule chair.

2. of the highest rank.

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curule British  

/ ˈkjʊəruːl /

adjective

1. (in ancient Rome) of the highest rank, esp one entitled to use a curule chair

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Etymology

Origin of curule

First recorded in 1590–1600, curule is from the Latin word curūlis

Example Sentences

The solemn, awful, inexorable literary Rhadamanthus, the dread Quarterly Review itself, sitting imposingly on its curule chair in ambrosial bigwig and high-heeled shoes, promulgated edicts against the new-fangled invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is of cast bronze, sharpened with the chisel and partially gilt; it is of the curule or faldstool type and supported upon legs terminating in the heads and feet of animals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

The principal part of the procession, of course, was the consuls in their curule chair, preceded by the lictors bearing the fasces, or bundles of rods and axes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

Fourteen years later, when curule aedile, he distributed large quantities of grain among the citizens at a very low price.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

He was twice dictator and six times consul, and occupied the curule chair twenty-one times.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various