curial

comparative more curial · superlative most curial

1. Pertaining to a court; courtly.
2. Pertaining to the papal curia.

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   In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].

   2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 116

plural curials

1. A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.