meaning of pretorian
1. Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.
2. A soldier of the pretorian guard.
3. 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.
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