Definition of curia

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Curia (n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana..

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Escorial :: Escorial (n.) See Escurial.
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2..
Per :: Per (prep.) Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words..
Escurial :: Escurial (n.) A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid..
Calomel :: Calomel (n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver..
Intramercurial :: Intramercurial (a.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Mercurialize :: Mercurialize (v. i.) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious..
Ignorantism :: Ignorantism (n.) The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.
Gens :: Gens (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe..
Saturnine :: Saturnine (a.) Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper..
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty..
Mercurial :: Mercurial (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
Mercurialist :: Mercurialist (n.) One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
Curialistic :: Curialistic (a.) Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Mercurializing :: Mercurializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurializ.
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth..
Curialist :: Curialist (n.) One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.
Protonotary :: Protonotary (n.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications..
Unction :: Unction (n.) The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction..
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