Crossword-Solution: PRAETORIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Praetorian | a. | See Pretorian. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRAETORIAN | anagram | REPARATION |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PRAETORIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ___ Guard of ancient Rome. | 1 answer |
| Julius Caesar, once | 2 answers |
| treasonable | 22 answers |
| perverted | 24 answers |
| STUBBORN person | 26 answers |
| Venal | 37 answers |
| Unscrupulous | 42 answers |
| Unethical | 46 answers |
| Wily | 58 answers |
| untrustworthy | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRAETORIAN (5)
Under this respectable character, the king of Italy restored the praetorian præfecture of the Gauls, reformed some abuses in the civil government of Spain, and accepted the annual tribute and apparent submission of its military governor, who wisely refused to trust his person in the palace of Ravenna.
The Praetorian præfect, the præfect of Rome, the quaestor, the master of the offices, with the public and patrimonial treasurers, 5411 whose functions are painted in gaudy colors by the rhetoric of Cassiodorus, still continued to act as the ministers of state.
Liberius was promoted to the office of Praetorian præfect for his unshaken fidelity to the unfortunate cause of Odoacer.
The son was born in the year 479: his various epistles as quaestor, master of the offices, and Praetorian præfect, extend from 509 to 539, and he lived as a monk about thirty years, (Tiraboschi Storia della Letteratura Italiana, tom.
Cassiodorus himself was first the treasurer of the private expenditure to Odoacer, afterwards “count of the sacred largesses.” Yielding with the rest of the Romans to the dominion of Theodoric, he was instrumental in the peaceable submission of Sicily; was successively governor of his native provinces of Bruttium and Lucania, quaestor, magister, palatii, Praetorian præfect, patrician, consul, and private secretary, and, in fact, first minister of the king.
Quotes with PRAETORIAN (3)
The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. A…
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the worl…
[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1969–2004).