præfect

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See also: praefect

English

Noun

præfect (plural præfects)

  1. Archaic form of prefect.

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French

Noun

præfect m (plural præfects)

  1. Obsolete form of préfet.
    • 1628, Sébastien Roulliard, Melun ou l'Histoire de la Ville de Melun, page 107:
      [] voires qu’il euſt reſcript lettres à Ragonius Clarus, Præfect des Gaules, & de l’Illyric; []
      even that he had rewritten letters to Ragonius Clarus, Prefect of the Gauls and of Illyricum;