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83 curta supellex
culotte [Fr], breeches; cookery, rump, as of beef. —culotte de peau, lit.,
leather breeches; old military officer; old fogy: colloq.
culpa [L], fault; negligence. —culpa lata, gross negligence. —culpa
levis, ordinary negligence; excusable neglect: all law.
culpam poena premit comes [L], punishment presses hard upon the
heels of crime: Horace.
culteranismo [Sp], cultism; Gongorism; affected literary elegance.
cultos [Sp], Spanish writers of the cultist school; Gongorists.
cum [L], with: used in various phrases, as in cum dividend {abbr. cum
div.), also in the names of combined English parishes, as in Stowcum-Quy.
cum bona venia [L], with your good favor; with your kind indulgence.
cumbre [Sp], top; summit.
cum grano salis [L], with a grain of salt; with allowance or reservation.
cum laude [L], with praise; with distinction: used esp. in a diploma to
designate work of special merit; the first (lowest) grade of honors.
Cf. MAGNA CUM LAUDE and SUMMA CUM LAUDE.
cummerbund [Anglo-Ind; Hind kamarband], waistband or sash.
cum multis aliis [L], with many others.
cum notis variorum [L], with the notes of various commentators.
cum privilegio [L], with privilege.
cumshaw [Pidgin], in Chinese, lit., grateful thanks; gratuity; present;
bonus: China.
cum tacent, clamant [L], when they are silent they cry loudest; their
silence speaks louder than words.
cuneta [Sp], drain; gutter; ditch.
cuneus cuneum trudit [L], wedge drives wedge.
curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent [L], light griefs find utterance,
great ones are dumb: Seneca.
cura facit canos [L], care brings gray hairs.
cur ante tubam tremor occupât artus [L], why should fear seize the
limbs before the trumpet sounds: Virgil.
curateur [Fr], trustee.
curé [Fr], parish priest; rector; vicar.
cure-dent [Fr], toothpick.
curia advisari vult [LL], the court wishes to be advised; the court
wishes to consider {abbr. cur. adv. vult or c.a.v.): law.
curiosa felicitas [L], nice felicity of expression: Petronius.
cúrrente calamo [L], with a running pen; fluently; offhand.
currus bovem trahit [L], the cart draws the ox; put the cart before the
horse.
cursus curiae est lex curiae [L], the practice of the court is the law of
the court: law.
curta supellex [L], scanty supply of furniture; meager stock of knowledge.