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Definition of Prelects
1. prelect [v] - See also: prelect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelects
Literary usage of Prelects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon, in MDCCCXV to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1855)
"Disunion be- prelects of departments, who were, ... it was indispensable that
the prelects should be in entire harmony with the cabinet. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by William Smith, Henry Wace (1877)
"In civil matters the first class could only be cited before prelects, praetorian
or urban ; and the second before their vicars. In criminal trials, however, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"From the bar of the praetorian prelects, he raised himself to the honours of
quaestor, of consul; and of master of the offices ; the council of Justinian ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1811)
"The prelects, sub-prefects, and mavors, do each in his respective sphere all that
circumstances permit. Thrice a day they cause all the belli to ring, ..."
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