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Curial vs Curtal - What's the difference?

curial | curtal |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between curial and curtal

is that curial is (obsolete) pertaining to a court; courtly while curtal is (obsolete) abridged, curtailed.

As adjectives the difference between curial and curtal

is that curial is (obsolete) pertaining to a court; courtly while curtal is (obsolete) of horses, having a docked tail.

As a noun curtal is

(historical) a variety of short-barrelled cannon.

curial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
  • Pertaining to the papal curia.
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 116:
  • *: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 […].

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    curtal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A variety of short-barrelled cannon.
  • (obsolete) A horse or other animal having a docked tail.
  • (music) An early type of bassoon.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of horses, having a docked tail.
  • Physically shortened; short.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, page 98:
    • she had loosened her hair and changed into the curtal frock of sunbright cotton that he was so fond of and had so ardently yearned to soil in the so recent past.
  • (obsolete) Abridged, curtailed.
  • * Milton:
    • Essays and curtal aphorisms.

    Derived terms

    * curtal friar