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Definition of Presidiary
1. n. A guard.
Definition of Presidiary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presidiary
Literary usage of Presidiary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"engaged the presidiary cohorts in a bootless and calamitous campaign. The time
was come when it was necessary to specify more accurately the limits within ..."
2. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1872)
"engaged the presidiary cohorts in a bootless and calamitous campaign. The time
was come when it was necessary to specify more accurately the limits within ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"... from Augustus to Aurelian, till the sceptre departed from Rome, and was wielded
in the presidiary camps on the Rhine, the Danube, and the Euphrates. ..."
4. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1858)
"... as far as they could render service, on the side chosen by their presidiary
troops. In fact the population generally throughout the empire, disarmed, ..."
5. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1888)
"Britain had been nominally recovered, but the presidiary legions had been withdrawn,
and the province was unable to defend itself against the ..."
6. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"It was garded with five companies of presidiary soldiers when I was there, whereof
one was English. For the Leager (this is the name of the States armie ..."
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