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
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
Eventually, the curule aedileship also was opened to them, and was held by patricians and plebeians in alternate years.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
But a new curule magistracy was created, as a sort of compensation to the patricians, that of prætors, to be held by them, exclusively.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
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
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