"prætorium" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: prætoria [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|prætoria}} prætorium (plural prætoria)
  1. Alternative form of pretorium Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pretorium
    Sense id: en-prætorium-en-noun-6ZLULRxD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1779, Joseph Strutt, The Chronicle of England; Or, a Compleat History, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical of the Ancient Britons and Saxons:",
          "text": "As for the void space behind the tribunes' tents on each side the prætorium, the one side is allotted for the markets, and the other is occupied by the quæstor and the ammunition.",
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          "ref": "1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk:",
          "text": "We entered the prætorium and held grave converse.",
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          "ref": "2013, James David Audlin, The Gospel of John -Volume 2: Commentaries on the Text, →ISBN, page 856:",
          "text": "An arrest close to the Temple and prætorium would also easily avoid public notice and hence not set off a riot – just arrest him and scoot him off to the nearby trial site – where an arrest at or near the Mount of Olives would require taking Jesus under guard across the entire breadth of the city of Jerusalem, which would almost certainly be noticed!",
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