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Webster 1913 Edition

Curule

Cu′rule

(kū′rṳl)
,
Adj.
[L.
curulis
, fr.
currus
a chariot: cf. F.
curule
.]
1.
Of or pertaining to a chariot.
2.
(Rom. Antiq.)
Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
☞ The curule chair was usually shaped like a camp stool, and provided with curved legs. It was at first ornamented with ivory, and later sometimes made of ivory and inlaid with gold.
Curule dignity
right of sitting in the curule chair.

Webster 1828 Edition

Curule

CURULE

,
Adj.
[L., a chariot.] Belonging to a chariot. The curule chair or seat, among the Romans, was a stool without a back, covered with leather, and so made as to be folded. It was conveyed in a chariot, and used by public officers.

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