- Papal court - One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were
divided by Romulus. - The place of assembly of one of these divisions. - The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the
senate house. - The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his
residence or his household. - Any court of justice. - The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the
machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
- Sorry Edward II left diary in prison - Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of
penance. - Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter. - Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation. - One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance. - One who does penance. - A small building in a monastery where penitents
confessed.
- One who abbreviates or shortens. - One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal
court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition,
or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into
official form.