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curialist

curialist

9.9
A person who works for the pope's central office in the Roman Catholic Church
  • noun
  • /ˈkjʊəriəlist/
  • Formal
translation icon : curialista
  • Guido certainly makes strong claims about the Church's supreme judicial role, as we would expect from a fourteenth-century curialist working for the pope's cause against the Spiritual Franciscans.

Examples

  • As a devoted curialist, she attended every meeting of the papal Curia to support its decisions.

  • During the conference, a prominent curialist presented his views on the reforms needed in the administration of the Church.

  • The curialist spoke passionately about the importance of maintaining the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Surface Forms

curialist singular
curialists plural

Morphology

curialist = curial (transparent) = curia + al + ist

The sense specifies the papal Curia but is still formed regularly from 'curial' + '-ist'; the morphological relation is clear.

Etymology

Curialist comes from the Latin curia, which means 'court' or 'council'. In church use, a curialist is a member or supporter of the papal Curia, the Vatican's group that runs the church's administration.