Curia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CURIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a court of justice
• the papal court at the Vatican, by which the Roman Catholic Church is governed. It comprises various Congregations, Tribunals, and other commissions and departments.
• papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
• One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
• The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
• The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
• The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
• Any court of justice.
• The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
• (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church

Words related to CURIA

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Words that contain CURIA

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How to use CURIA in a sentence

• The work of the Exchequer and the Curia Regis almost came to an end.
• Under the new system the Curia Regis eventually became the recognized court of appeal for the whole kingdom.
• The Curia had discovered that it was for their interest to have ecclesiastics all over Europe in their debt.
• The two pillars on which the papal system now rested were the College of Cardinals and the Curia.
• Several hundred persons, whose home was the Curia, were required.
• The Germans, who had never been permitted to share in the Curia, took the leading part in these attempts at reform.
• Adriano, the famous Curia Hostilia or Senate House, attributed to Tullus Hostilius, stood.
• Near the Curia under the present roadway must lie the site of the Comitium, or meeting-place of the Roman burgesses.
• He is the most outspoken of all the fourteenth century critics of the Roman curia, and has more insight than most of his contemporaries.
• At Constance the Papacy and the Roman Curia stood together, exposed to the hostile criticism of Europe.
• The Papal Curia had anticipated the profits to be derived from such appeals.
• The Roman Curia opposes every branch of learning which savors of polite literature, while it defends its barbarism with tooth and nail.
• But the Curia and higher clergy organized an opposition against them.
• Some frank words which escaped him in correspondence, regarding the corruption of the Papal Curia, closed every avenue to office.
• He had deserved the hatred of the Curia, the Inquisition, the Jesuits, and their myrmidons.
• The Curia at first demanded twelve thousand ducats for the twelve apostles.
• By this transaction, one of the most disgraceful in the history of the papacy, as well as in that of the house of Brandenburg, the Curia made a vast sum.
• In this book a thought is suggested which connects the Roman Curia with political disturbances that occur in the world.
• When Mausolus, king of Curia, died, his widow, Queen Artemisia, seemed thenceforth almost wholly absorbed in the memory of him.
• Many places were sacred to this Deity, and called Cura, Curia, Curopolis, Curene, Cureschata, Curesta, Curestica regio.
• Eumenes, king of Pergamus, obtains Mysia, Lydia, and part of Curia, 112.
• There is a possibility that the curia may be the basilica on the Corso terrace of the city.
• Encouraged by the Pope and frequented by distinguished members of the Curia, its era of greatness dawned in splendour.
• Although the newly elected Pontiff expressed an amiable wish to see his old friend in Rome, he offered him no definite position in Curia.
• Very specially was this the case as regards all that concerned the Vatican and the doings of the Curia.
• The Senate was to convene the afternoon of the seventh, in the Curia of Pompeius, in the Campus Martius.

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