pretorian : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pretorian	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pretorian
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pretorian adj of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers" Synonym(s): praetorian, praetorial, pretorian, pretorial characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality; "a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr. Synonym(s): Praetorian, Pretorian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pretorian \Preto"rian\, n. A soldier of the pretorian guard.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pretorian \Preto"rian\, 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.