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

"Do sit down," she said, indicating a "property" curule chair.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

They surrendered the duties of registration to the censors in 443 B.C., and the rights of civil jurisdiction and control over the market and police to the praetor and the curule aediles in 367 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

Etruria gave them kings, augurs, doctors, mimes, musicians, boxers, runners; the royal purple, the royal sceptre, the fasces, the curule chair, the Lydian flute, the straight trumpet, and the curved trumpet.

From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Ernest Rhys

Flaccus did not rise from his curule as they approached, but he returned their greetings with better grace than they had formerly expected of a Roman governor.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

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