CURIA
\kjˈʊɹiə], \kjˈʊɹiə], \k_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_i__ə]\
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By Princeton University
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One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
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The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
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The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
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Any court of justice.
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The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
By Oddity Software
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k[=u]'ri-a, n. one of the ten divisions of a Roman tribe: a building in which the senate met, a provincial senate: a court, legislative or judicial: the court of the papal see.--ns. C[=U]'RIALISM; C[=U]'RIALIST.--adj. CURIALIST'IC. [L.]
By Thomas Davidson
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).