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pretorian |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pretorian \Pre*to"ri*an\, a. [L. praetorians: cf F. pr['e]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]: Pretorian \Pre*to"ri*an\, n. A soldier of the pretorian guard. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pretorian adj 1: of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers" [syn: {praetorian}, {praetorial}, {pretorial}] 2: characteristic of Praetorian soldiers in 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 [syn: {praetorian}]
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