Curule Definition

kyo͝oro͝ol
adjective
Designating a chair like an upholstered campstool with heavy curved legs, in which only the highest civil officers of Rome were privileged to sit.
Webster's New World
Privileged to sit in a curule chair; of the highest rank.
Webster's New World

Origin of Curule

  • Latin curūlis of a curule chair from currus chariot from currere to run kers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin curūlis (“of or pertaining to a chariot; curule chair”), from currus (“chariot”), from currō (“run”).

    From Wiktionary

Curule Sentence Examples

  • Although not sacrosanct, they had the right of sitting in a curule chair and wore the distinctive toga praetexta.

  • Having served in the army in Spain and Sardinia, he became curule aedile, praetor and (after an unsuccessful attempt in 117) consul in 115.

  • As curule aedile in 58, Scaurus celebrated the public games on a scale of magnificence never seen before.

  • This nobility consisted of all those who, as descendants of curule magistrates, had the jus imaginum - that is, who could point to forefathers ennobled by office.

  • That is to say, it consisted of the remains of the old patriciate, together with those plebeian families any members of which had been chosen to curule offices.

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Words Ending With

ELEULE

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