“pretenture”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pretenture

释义

pretenture Rom. Antiq.|priːˈtɛntjʊə(r)|
Also præ-.
[ad. late L. prætentūra (Ammian. Marcell.) a guard on the frontier of a province, also a barricade, f. prætendĕre: see pretend.]
1. A Roman frontier wall or rampart, esp. one of the two defending Roman Britain from the unsubdued tribes in the north.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 102 There remain yet two doubts: First, whether this Prætenture, or Wall, was made of Stone, or of Turfs.1771Macpherson Introd. Hist. Gt. Brit. 160 note, A stone dug out of the ruins of the Roman pretenture, between the Scottish firths, inscribed to Apollo Grannius.1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 112 The most amazing monument of the Roman power in England, is the praetenture, or wall of Severus.
2. A Roman garrison guarding a frontier.
1807Britton Beauties Eng., Lincolnshire 596 Carrying corn, and other commodities, from the Iceni, etc., for the use of the northern prætentures.

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