curule

American  

[kyoor-ool] / ˈkjʊər 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

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Example Sentences

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curule

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

As these were curule officers, they had, by their office, admission to the Senate.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord

Consuls Madisonius and Monrovious left the seat of office, and Consuls Johannes Quincius, and Andreas, and Martinus, and the rest, followed in their turn, until the good Abraham sat in the curule chair.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown

After the clergy came a number of the chief officers of state, and lastly, King Henry the Second, who took his seat in the highest of the curule chairs, midmost among the others.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

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

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