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Primus:
cu-ri-a
n., pl. cu-ri-ae. [Latin cu-ria, council, curia.] cu-ri-al, adj. |
Noun 1. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. 2. Any court of justice. 3. The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. 4. The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. 5. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. 6. One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The Curia of ancient Rome was the place where the Senate met to discuss the making of laws and take decisions about the affairs of the Republic. The Roman Catholic Church retains an assembly called the Roman Curia although its function is very different from the Roman Curia of the 1st Century BC. |
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Secundus:
car-di-nal
adj., n., [Middle English, from Late Latin cardina-lis, principal, pivotal, from Latin, serving as a hinge, from cardo-, cardin-, hinge.] car-di-nal-ship n. |
Adjective 1. Serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure". 2. Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers". Noun 1. (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes. 2. The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order. 3. A variable color averaging a vivid red. 4. Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male. |