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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Ignorantism :: Ignorantism (n.) The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.
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..
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
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..
Hydrargyrism :: Hydrargyrism (n.) A diseased condition produced by poisoning with hydrargyrum, or mercury; mercurialism..
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..
Mercurialize :: Mercurialize (v. i.) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
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..
Mercurialize :: Mercurialize (v. t.) To affect with mercury.
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.
Mercurial :: Mercurial (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Mercurializing :: Mercurializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurializ.
Curialistic :: Curialistic (a.) Pertaining to a court.
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..
Mercurial :: Mercurial (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
Mercurial :: Mercurial (n.) A person having mercurial qualities.
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