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Etymology

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From Latin cūriālis (belonging to the imperial court), from cūria rēgis (counsellors and retinue of a king).

Adjective

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curialistic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a court.
  2. Relating or belonging to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for curialistic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)