a. Amatory. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. [ 1913 Webster ]

You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dictatorial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. historien. ] 1. A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even the historian takes great liberties with facts. Sir J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One versed or well informed in history. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great captains should be good historians. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imperial. [ R. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century, who was condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of God though she might be called the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, India, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. Opposed to Eutychian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or relating to the Nestorians. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warrior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of the Nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Oratorical. [ Obs. ] R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. oratorien. ] (R. C. Ch.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Pretorian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praetorians: cf. F. prétorien. ] Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretorian bands or
Pretorian guards, or
Pretorians (Rom. Hist.), the emperor's bodyguards, instituted by the Emperor Augustus in nine cohorts of 1, 000 men each. --
Pretorian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soldier of the pretorian guard. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. Boswell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Senatorial. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stentoreus; cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the Suctoria. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. [ 1913 Webster ]

Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under Dyonysian. [ 1913 Webster ]