Cū'rule, a.

a. [Lat. curulis, from currus, a chariot, from currere, to run; Fr. curule.] (Rom. Antiq.) Belonging to a chariot; — applied to a kind of chair or seat appropriated to certain magistrates, and regarded as a symbol of authority. It was without arms or back, and was borne in a chariot when the magistrates entitled to use it went to council. Curule dignity, or honor, that pertaining to the right of sitting in the curule chair.