[pri:'tɔ:riәn] n. (=praetorian) [古罗马]有执政官身份的人 adj. (=praetorian)[古罗马]监理军事的执政官的
pretorian
[ adj ]
of or relating to a Roman praetor
<adj.pert> praetorial powers
characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
<adj.all> a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
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 {Pretorian 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.
Pretorian \Pre*to"ri*an\, n. A soldier of the pretorian guard.