2. (Middle Ages)
Defn: The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill.
3. (Law)
Defn: Any court of justice.
4. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; — called also curia Romana.
CURIAL
Cu"ri*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. — n.
Defn: A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
CURIALISM
Cu"ri*a*lism (k"r—lz'm), n.
Defn: The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin
Church. Gladstone.