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pretorian

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
pre=to=ri=an

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective pretorian has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

pretoriana. [L. praetorians: cf. F. prétorien.].
     Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.  [1913 Webster]
Pretorian bands or Pretorian guards, or Pretorians (Rom. Hist.), the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1,000 men each. -- Pretorian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy. Brande & C.
pretoriann. 
     A soldier of the pretorian guard.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pretorian, US var. of PRAETORIAN.

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