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(Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church

One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.

The place of assembly of one of these divisions.

The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.

Any court of justice.

The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.

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.]

One of the ten divisions of any of the three ancient Roman tribes; its place of worship; Roman senate-house; senate of ancient Italian towns; court of justice (esp. under feudal organization); the Papal court. [Latin]

[L.] The name usually applied to the temporal court of the Roman see.