curiality

English

Etymology

Compare Latin curialitas (“courtesy”), from curialis.

Noun

curiality (countable and uncountable, plural curialities)

(obsolete) The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court.
- 1616, Francis Bacon, letter to the Duke of Buckingham:
- The Court and Curiality

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “curiality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)