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prefectorial, a.|priːfɛkˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. late L. præfectōri-us (Ulpian) belonging to a prefect + -al1.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to a prefect or prefects.
1883Century Mag. XXV. 717 To keep up the contemptible and anti-democratic prefectorial rule in the departments. 1895Athenæum 21 Sept. 381/1 At Chaot'ung, a prefectorial city, he found the people in the direst distress.
b. esp. in the English Public School system. (See prefect n. 2.)
1862Q. Rev. Apr. 419 Maintaining a sound and well-tempered monitorial or prefectorial system,..is involved in the true idea of a public school. 1893Athenæum 22 July 130/1 It is not easy to secure..wise prefectorial authority, except by means of able boys staying out the full period of boyhood at the school.
2. Of or pertaining to a prefecture (sense 3).
1942E. Paul Narrow St. iii. 24 Hours of squinting in the dingy misplaced prefectorial light. 1963Times 18 Feb. 8/3 As incumbent of the Lyons prefecture, a massive grey building typical of the ‘prefectorial baroque’..he represents the central power of Paris.
Hence prefecˈtorially adv., in a prefectorial capacity; by the authority of a prefect.
1895Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 8/2 If ‘rational dress’ be prefectorially repressed [in Paris], and the young women compelled to resume their former coquettish costumes. |