LICTOR

Definition: LICTOR

LICTOR

Noun

1. An officer who bore an ax and fasces or rods, as ensigns of his office. His duty was to attend the chief magistrates when they appeared in public, to clear the way, and cause due respect to be paid to them, also to apprehend and punish criminals.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LICTOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

"LICTOR" is a common misspelling or typo for: lector.

Synonyms within Context: LICTOR

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Jurisdiction	Officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel; tithingman.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Lictor

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The lictor, derived from the Latin ligare (to bind), was a special class of Roman civil servant, with special tasks of attending magistrates of the Roman Republic and Empire who held imperium. The origin of the tradition of lictors goes back to the time when Rome was a kingdom, perhaps acquired by their Etruscan neighbours.

Crosswords: LICTOR

Non-English Usage: "LICTOR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (lictor).

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Commercial Usage: LICTOR

Domain	Title
Books	Espada del Lictor, La (reference) The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, V. 3) (reference) (more book examples)
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Modern Translations: LICTOR

Language		Translations for "LICTOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		liktor, ndëshkues publik. (various references)

Greek		ρωμαίοσ ραβδούχοσ. (various references)

Italian		littore. (various references)

Pig Latin		ictorlay

Romanian		lictor. (various references)

Thai		ผู้ที่ทำหน้าที่ติ�"ตามผู้พิพากษาในสมัยโรมันโบรา�". (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LICTOR

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	apparitores, lictores. (various references)
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Derivations: LICTOR

Derivations
	Words beginning with "LICTOR": lictors. (additional references)
	Words ending with "LICTOR": inflictor. (additional references)
	Words containing "LICTOR": inflictors. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LICTOR"

Words rhyming with "LICTOR" (pronounced 'Lic"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Depressomotor, Devotor, Dialector, Dictator, Dilatator, Disceptator, Divaricator, Donator, Ductor, Eductor, Electromotor. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LICTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: lirot, lotic, toric, triol.
	-2 letters: clit, clot, coil, coir, colt, loci, loti, otic, riot, roil, roti, rotl, tirl, tiro, toil, torc, tori, trio.
	-3 letters: col, cor, cot, lit, lot, oil, orc, ort, roc, rot, tic, til, tor.
	-4 letters: it, li, lo, or, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: lictors, trochil.
	+2 letters: acrolith, chlorite, cilantro, clitoral, clitoric, clitoris, cloister, clothier, coistrel, coistril, colorist, contrail, cortical, cortisol, costlier, cryolite, dicrotal, elicitor, erotical, leprotic, lordotic, loricate, nitrolic, petrolic, tricolor, trifocal, trochili, trochils, tropical, vortical.
	+3 letters: acroliths, aleatoric, archivolt, auctorial, blotchier, cabriolet, cantorial, captopril, centriole, chlorites, chloritic, chlorotic, chortling, cilantros, cloisters, cloistral, clothiers, cloturing, coistrels, coistrils, colicroot, colorists, contrails, coprolite, cortisols, courtlier, cryolites, doctrinal, doleritic, elicitors, factorial, floristic, fluorotic, fortalice, haircloth, inflictor, interlock, loricates, microlith, microvolt, ocularist, pictorial, plethoric, precoital, proclitic, prolactin, proleptic, pyrolytic, rectorial, reliction, rhyolitic, sclerotia, sclerotic, sclerotin, sectorial, solicitor, suctorial, tricolors, trifocals, trochilus, ureotelic, vectorial, vitriolic, wristlock.
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