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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pretoral, adj. [f. Pretor n.1] Appar., like a prætorium or official residence of a Roman prætor, a governor's palace. — 1549 Compl. 43/24.
In thai dais … kyngis … tuke mair delyit … to manure corne landis nor thai did to remane in pretoral palecis or in tryumphand citeis
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