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Definition of Prefects
1. prefect [n] - See also: prefect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefects
Literary usage of Prefects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"Though the emperors no longer dreaded the ambition of their prefects, they were
attentive to counterbalance the power of this great office ..."
2. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, H. Tetu, Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"Each boy (except the six senior prefects, who shared a ' study' with as many
desks between them, and some of the youngest who sat at the tables) had a ..."
3. William George Ward and the Oxford Movement by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1889)
"Each boy (except the six senior prefects, who shared a ' study ' with as many
desks between them, and some of the youngest who sat at the tables) had a ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"Though the emperors no longer dreaded the ambition of their prefects, they were
attentive to counterbalance the power of this great office by the ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"In places not large enough for ayuntamientos, there were to be justices of the
peace, proposed by the sub-prefects, nominated by the prefects and approved ..."
6. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1885)
"In places not large enough for ayuntamientos, there were to be justices of the
peace, proposed ' by the sub-prefects, nominated by the prefects and approved ..."
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