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[Lat. curial is (1) of or belonging to a curia, (2) pertaining to a court.] Of or pertaining to a court. *cür-i-al-I-ty, s. [As if from a Lat. curial it as , from curial is .] Matters connected with a court, as its privileges, prerogatives, retinue, . "I come to the last of those things which I propounded, the court and curiality." -Bacon : To Villiers . *cür'-le, s . [Prob. from Lat. cur a=care; or from quæro =to seek.] Inquiry, search, investigation. cür-Ing, *cur-ynge, pr. par., a. & 8. [CURE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive : 1. The act of healing, restoring to health, or making sound. "Curynge or heelynge of sekene e. Curacio , sanacio." Prompt . Parv. 2. The act or proce of preparing for preservation, as by drying, salting, . 1231 ers of steel tools,."-Boyle: Works , iii. 418. It is sometimes followed by after , in , or of be- fore the object of research or inquiry. *4. Accurate, exact, careful, precise, scrupulous. men were not curious what syllables or par- ticles of speech they used."- Hooker . *5. Nice, fastidious, hard to please, anxious. "A temperate person is not curious of fancies and deliciousne ."-Taylor. "The curious search of Euryclea's eye." Pope : Homer's Ody ey, xix. 459. " a quarry, to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting or so fair, As man to man." Akenside: Pleasures of Imagination , iii. skill; elegant. *3. Exact, nice; made or done with care and "And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen." Exod . xxviii. 8. ". *4. Over-nice, fastidious, or particular. "By what strange parallax, or optic skill Of vision, multiplied through air, or gla Of telescope, were curious to inquire. Milton: P. R., iv. 40-42. *5. Exact, particular, scrupulous. "Each ornament about her seemly lies, By curious chance, or carele art, compos'd." *6. Nice, subtle, refined. curing-house, 8. A house or building in which various articles, such as bacon, are cured; specifically a building in which sugar is drained and dried. cür-1-8-log-Ic, a. [Gr. kuriologikos =speaking or describing literally: kurios = strict, literal, and logos =a word; lego to speak, to tell.] worthy of note. Applied to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which things are represented by their pictures.