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มีผลลัพธ์ที่ไม่แสดงผลอยู่ | | pretor | (พรี'เทอะ) n. ผู้พิพากษาหรือขุนนางผู้ปกครองของกรุงโรมโบราณ., See also: praetorship n. |
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| | | | Pretor | n. [ L. praetor, for praeitor, fr. praeire to go before; prae before + ire to go. See Issue. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Originally the pretor was a kind of third consul; but at an early period two pretors were appointed, the first of whom (praetor urbanus) was a kind of mayor or city judge; the other (praetor peregrinus) was a judge of cases in which one or both of the parties were foreigners. Still later, the number of pretors, or judges, was further increased. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Hence, a mayor or magistrate. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pretorial | a. Pretorian. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pretorian | a. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Pretorian | n. A soldier of the pretorian guard. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pretorium | ‖n. [ L. praetorium, fr. praetor. ] 1. The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pretorship | n. The office or dignity of a pretor. J. Warton [ 1913 Webster ] | | Pretorture | v. t. To torture beforehand. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Propretor | n. [ L. propraetor; pro for, before + praetor a pretor. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province. [ Written also proprætor. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | pretoria | (n) city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa, Syn. capital of South Africa | | praetor | (n) an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, Syn. pretor | | praetorian | (adj) of or relating to a Roman praetor, Syn. praetorial, pretorian, pretorial, Example: praetorial powers | | praetorian | (adj) characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality; - Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr., Syn. Pretorian, Example: a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble | | praetorium | (n) the tent of an ancient Roman general, Syn. pretorium |
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