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Pretorian

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
pre=to=ri=an

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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