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Pretorian
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A soldier of the pretorian guard.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.