Word Meanings - PRETORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pretorian. Burke.

PRETORIAN
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 , the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts
BURKE
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary