See Also: curia(dictionary)
CURIA(law)
curia(encyclopedia)
CURIA REGIS(law)
RECTUS IN CURIA(law)
CANCELLARIA CURIA(law)
Roman Curia(encyclopedia)
rectus in curia(dictionary)
CURIA CLAUDENDA, WRIT DE, Eng(law)
CURIA ADVISARE VULT, practice(law)

unsocial (iou) and curia (sh)


unsocial (iou)



unsocial adjective. M18.
[from UN-1 + SOCIAL adjective.]
Not suitable for or seeking society; not conforming to normal social behaviour, conditions, etc.; antisocial.
unsocial hours socially inconvenient working hours; hours outside the normal working day.
R. Macaulay The dream of some different life..in unsocial aloneness. C. S. Lewis Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.
unsocialist noun & adjective (a person who is) not socialist L19.
unsoci'ality noun unsocial character or behaviour M19.
unsocialized adjective not socialized M20.
unsocially adverb M17.

curia (sh)




In medieval Europe, a court, or a group of persons who attended a ruler at a given time for social, political, or judicial purposes.

The ruler and curia made policy decisions (as on war, treaties, finances, church relations), and under a powerful ruler the curia often became active as a court of law. Indeed, curiae became so loaded down with judicial work that they were gradually forced to delegate it to special groups of judges. In England the Curia Regis (King's Court) began at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066) and lasted to about the end of the 13th century. It was the germ from which the higher courts of law, the Privy Council, and the cabinet were to spring. See also Roman Curia.