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Definition of Prætor
1. Noun. (context: Roman history) The title designating a Roman administrative official whose role changed over time: ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) A high civic or administrative official, especially a chief magistrate or mayor. (non-gloss definition Sometimes used as a title.) ¹
3. Noun. (context: in Italian seventeenth- and eighteenth-Century history translating the Italian “pretore#Italian pretore”) The title of the chief magistrate, the mayor, and/or the podestà in Palermo, in Verona, and in various other parts of Italy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com