Word Meanings - PREFECTORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a prefect.

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• PREFECTURE
  The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PREFECTSHIP
  The office or jurisdiction of a prefect.
• PREFECTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a prefect.
• PREFECT
  1. A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach