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Curule vs Curdle - What's the difference?

curule | curdle |

As an adjective curule

is designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient rome.

As a verb curdle is

(ambitransitive) to form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds (usually said of milk).

curule

English

(Curule chair)

Adjective

(head)
  • Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.
  • :* 1985': Followed by his foolish followers Titus Vinius, who had served him in Spain, Cornelius Laco, an arrogant idiot, and the freedman Icelus Marcianus, who was after Laco’s post, he made for the '''curule chair. — Anthony Burgess, ''Kingdom of the Wicked

    • curdle

    English

    Verb

    (curdl)
  • (ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
    • Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
  • (ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
  • * 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
    • "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
  • To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
  • * 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'

    Derived terms

    * curdled

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