482 CUR 
Here the poor lover, that has long endur’d 
Some proud nymph’s fcorn, of his fond paifion’s cur'd. 
Waller. 
To prepare in any manner, fo as to be preferved from 
corruption.—The beef would be fo ill chofen, or fo ill 
cured , as to dink many times before it came fo far as Hol¬ 
land. Temple. 
“ What can’t be Cur’d mud be endur’d.” Lcviusft 
patientid quicquid corrigere ef nefas. Hor. Patience renders 
that fupportable which cannot be remedied. And fo the 
French ; La patience rend fupportable ce que l'on ne f'auroit 
changer. The Germans fay; Gliicklick if rvcr vcrgifft was 
da nieht zu aendern if: He is happy who can forget what 
is not to be remedied. All very good leflons to recom¬ 
mend patience under misfortunes, and to bear the afflic¬ 
tions and adveriities of human life with Chridian forti¬ 
tude and refignation. 
CURE, a river of France, which runs into the Yonne, 
a little above Cravant. 
CU'REL, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diflrict 
of Joinville : one league north of Joinville, 
CU'RELESS, adj. Without cure ; without remedy: 
Bootlefs are plaints, and curelefs are my wounds ; 
No way to fly, nor drength to hold out flight. Shakefp. 
For love of heav’n, with patience undergo 
A curelefs ill, fince fate will have it fo. Dry den. 
CUREMO'NTE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the didritt 
of Brive four leagues and a half fouth-eaft of Brive. 
CU'RER,yi A healer; aphyfician.—The indexterity 
and worfe fuccefs of the molt famous of our confumption 
curers, do evidently demonflrate their dimnefs in behold¬ 
ing its caufes. Harvey. 
CU'RES, a town of the Sabines, of which Tatius was 
king. The inhabitants, called Qmirites, were carried to 
Rome, of which they became citizens. Virgil. 
CURE'TES, a people of Crete, called alfo Cory- 
bantes, who, according to Ovid, were produced from 
rain. Their knowledge of all the arts was extenfive, 
and they communicated it to many parts of ancient Greece. 
They were entrulted with the education of Jupiter ; and, 
to prevent his being difeovered by his father, they in¬ 
vented a kind of dance, and drowned his cries in the 
harlh founds of their Ihields and cymbals. Virgil. 
CUR'FEW, f. [from couvrir, to cover, and fu, fire, 
Fr. ] A cover for a fire ; a fireplate.'—But now for pans, 
pots, curfews, counters, and the like, the beauty will not 
be- fo much refpeCted, fo as the compound ftuIF is like to 
pafs. Bacon. 
CUR'FE.W-BELL, f. called in the law Latin of the 
middle ages ignitegium or pyritegiurn, and in French couvre- 
feu, was a fignal for all perfons to extinguilh their fires 
at a certain hour. In thofe ages people made fires in 
their houfes in a hole or pit in the center of the floor, 
under an opening formed in the roof; and, when the fire 
was burnt out, or the family went to bed, the whole was - 
Ihut by a cover of wood or of earth. This practice ftill pre¬ 
vails among the cottagers in fome parts of Scotland, and 
probably in other countries. In the dark ages, when all 
ranks of people were turbulent, a law was almod every 
where eftablilhed, that the fire fltould be extinguifhed 
at a certain time in the evening ; that the cover lhould 
be put over the fire-place ; and that all the family fltould 
retire to reff, or at lead: keep within doors. The time 
when this ought to be done was fignified by the ringing 
of a bell, called therefore the curfew-bell, or ignitegium. 
The law of William the Conqueror, which introduced 
this practice into England, was abolilhed by Henry I. in 
jioo. See the article Bell, vol. ii. p. 871. 
CUR'GIE, a village of Scotland, with a final 1 har¬ 
bour, on the coaft of the county of Wigton, in Luce Bay: 
Shree miles north from the mull of Galloway. 
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CU'RIA, /. An ancient divifion of the Roman tribes. 
Romulus originally divided the people into three tribes; 
and each tribe into ten curiae. Over each curia was ap. 
pointed a pried, who officiated at the facrifices of his re- 
fpeCtive aflembly. The facrifices were called curionia , 
and the pried curio. He was to be above the age of fifty. 
His morals were to be pure and unexceptionable, and his 
body free from all defeCts. The curiones were eleCted 
by their refpeCtive curiae, and above them was a fupe- 
rior pried called curio maximus, chofen by all the curiae 
in a public alfembly. The word carfa was alfo applied 
to public edifices among the Romans. Thefe were ge¬ 
nerally of two forts, divine, and civil. In the former 
were held the alfemblies of the prieds, and of every re¬ 
ligious order, for the regulation of religious facrifices 
and ceremonies. The other was appointed for the fenate, 
where they adembled for the difpatch of public bufinefs- 
The curia was folemnly confecrated by the augurs, be¬ 
fore a lawful alfembly could be convened there. There 
were three at Rome which more particularly claim our 
attention ; curia Hofilia, built by king Tullus Hodilius p 
curia Pompeii, where Julius C re far was murdered; and 
curia Augufi, the palace and court of the emperor Au- 
gudus. 
CU'RIA, f. in the ancient Englifli cudoms,was fome- 
tlmes taken for the perfons, as feudatory and other cuf- 
tomary tenants, who did their fuit and fervice at the 
court of the lord. Rennet’s Paroch. Antiq; 139. And it was 
ufual for the kings of England, in ancient times, to af- 
femble thebifliops, peers, and great men of the kingdom, 
to fome particular place, at the chief fedivals in the 
year; and this alfembly is called, by our hidorians, cu¬ 
ria, becaufe there they confuhed about the weighty af¬ 
fairs of the nation. 
CU'RIA ADVISARE VULT, f. in law, a deli¬ 
beration which a court of judicature fometimes takes, 
where there is any point of difficulty, before they give 
judgment in a caufe. And when judgment is flaid, upon 
motion to arred it, then it is entered by the judges curia 
advifarc vult. Shep. Epit. 682. 
CU'RIA CI.AUDENDA,/! in law, a writ to compel 
another to make a fence or wall, which he ought to make 
between his land and the plaintiff’s, on his refilling or 
deferring to do the fame. This writ doth not lie but 
againd him who hath a clofe adjoining to the plaintiff’s 
land, who is obliged to inclofe it; and it lieth not but 
for him who hath a freehold. See. It may be fued be¬ 
fore the lheriif in the county-court, or in the common 
pleas: and the judgment is to recover the inclolure and 
damages. New Nat. Br. 282. But, if the occupier of a 
clofe adjoining to mine, ought to repair the fence be¬ 
tween the doles, and do not, and his cattle dray into my 
clofe and do damage, I may didrain them damage fea- 
fant, or drive them out, and bring an aCtion of trefpafs. 
If my cattle dray into his clofe and do damage, he has. 
not a right to didrain them, nor can he fupport trefpafs 
againd me for the fame. Should my cattle, after dray- 
ing into his clofe, dray out of the fame into any high¬ 
way, or other place, and be lod, or trefpafs in the ground 
of a third perfon, and be by him didrained damage fea- 
fant, and kept till replevied, or I have made fatisfaCtion, 
I may maintain an aCtion againd the defaulter, i. e. againd 
the occupier of the adjoining clofe, for not repairing his 
fence, whereby fuch damage hath happened to me. The 
writ of curia claudenda therefore is grown out of ufe. See 
the article Trespass. 
CU'RIA C.URSUS AQ UM,f. A court held by the 
lord of the manor of Gravelend, for the better manage¬ 
ment of barges' and boats tiling the palfage on the river 
Thames from thence to London, and plyng at Gravef- 
end bridge, &c. mentioned in 2 Geo. II. c. 2.6. 
CU'RIA LEX de COMITIIS,/. was enacted by M. 
Curius Dentatus the tribune. It forbade the convening 
of the camitia, for the election of magidrates, without a 
previous permillion from the fenate. 
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