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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Imperator  \Im`pe*ra"tor\,  n.  [L.  See  {Emperor}.]  (Rom.  Antiq.) 
  A  commander;  a  leader;  an  emperor;  --  originally  an 
  appellation  of  honor  by  which  Roman  soldiers  saluted  their 
  general  after  an  important  victory.  Subsequently  the  title 
  was  conferred  as  a  recognition  of  great  military  achievements 
  by  the  senate,  whence  it  carried  wiht  it  some  special 
  privileges.  After  the  downfall  of  the  Republic  it  was  assumed 
  by  Augustus  and  his  successors,  and  came  to  have  the  meaning 
  now  attached  to  the  word  emperor. 

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