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Pretor
Pretor Pre"tor, n. [L. praetor, for praeitor, fr. praeire to go before; prae before + ire to go. See Issue.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans. Note: Originally the pretor was a kind of third consul; but at an early period two pretors were appointed, the first of whom (praetor urbanus) was a kind of mayor or city judge; the other (praetor peregrinus) was a judge of cases in which one or both of the parties were foreigners. Still later, the number of pretors, or judges, was further increased. 2. Hence, a mayor or magistrate. [R.] --Dryden.

Meaning of Pretor from wikipedia

- Praetor (/ˈpriːtər/ PREE-tər, classical Latin: [ˈprae̯tɔr]), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one...
- formation first po****rized and proposed as a type of cloud in 2009 by Gavin Pretor-Pinney of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Added to the International Cloud...
- Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author, known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion. Pretor-Pinney is son of...
- The Cloud Appreciation Society is a society founded by Gavin Pretor-Pinney from the United Kingdom in January 2005. The society aims to foster understanding...
- Pretor (Macedonian: Претор) is a village in the Resen Muni****lity of North Macedonia, on the northeastern s**** of Lake Prespa. It is over 13 kilometres...
- The Wavewatcher's Companion is a 2010 po****r science book by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The book was the 2011 winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science...
- John Pretor Pinney (1740 – 23 January 1818) was a plantation owner on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and was a sugar merchant in Bristol. He made...
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- Archived 2009-12-13 at the Wayback Machine The Cloudspotter's Guide By Gavin Pretor-Pinney, p. 233 "Cloud Iridescence | SKYbrary Aviation Safety". skybrary...
- from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016. Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2010). The Wavewatcher's Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781408811160...