PRETORIANS

Noun

Pretorians

plural of Pretorian

Anagrams

• patroniser, periastron, portainers

Noun

pretorians

plural of pretorian

Anagrams

• patroniser, periastron, portainers

Source: Wiktionary

PRETORIAN

Pre*to"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. praetorians: cf. F. prétorien.]

Definition: 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.

Pre*to"ri*an, n.

Definition: A soldier of the pretorian guard.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition