Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pretorian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pretorian.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
praetorian .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a Roman praetor
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Examples
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Even as your other worships, answered Bridlegoose; for I give out sentence in his favour unto whom hath befallen the best chance by dice, judiciary, tribunian, pretorial, what comes first.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Even as your other worships, answered Bridlegoose; for I give out sentence in his favour unto whom hath befallen the best chance by dice, judiciary, tribunian, pretorial, what comes first.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Even as your other worships, answered Bridlegoose; for I give out sentence in his favour unto whom hath befallen the best chance by dice, judiciary, tribunian, pretorial, what comes first.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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