curule
Americanadjective
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privileged to sit in a curule chair.
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of the highest rank.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of curule
First recorded in 1590–1600, curule is from the Latin word curūlis
Example Sentences
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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
"They would not have taken me from my curule chair alive," responded the attorney grandly.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
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
The old distinction of patricians and plebeians had vanished, and a new nobility had arisen, composed of rich men and of those whose ancestors had enjoyed curule magistracies.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
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
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