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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Pretorian \Pre*to"ri*an\, a. [L. praetorians: cf. F. pr[82]torien.] Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority. {Pretorian bands} [or] {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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Guards \Guards\ (g[aum]rdz), n. pl. A body of picked troops; as, [bd]The Household Guards.[b8] | |
