Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
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- noun obsolete The
privileges ,prerogatives , orretinue of acourt .
Etymologies
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Compare Latin curialitas courtesy, from curialis.
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[Footnote 257: 'Quod si eos vel ad honores transire jura vetuerunt, quam videtur esse contrarium, Curialem Reipublicae, amissâ turpiter libertate, servire? et usque ad conditionem pervenisse postremam quem vocavit antiquitas _Minorem Senatum_.'] [Did the alleged Curials, in such a case, wish to have their curiality or their quasi-ecclesiastical character established?
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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