Show definitions OF TITLES TRE praetor I vis a magistrate elected mr for ali the purpose purpose ot of administering justice when the consuls were absent from rome Pome there were two praetors praet ors one for the city and one for places at a distance was originally a title of honor bestowed on a victorious general after the downfall of the tic lie it became the title of the supreme ruler and had the sense of our word arabe emperor or THE only genuine sheikh is the governor of medina his office is said to date bate from the time of the prophet it is is now generally applied I 1 as an ho honorary n title to the head man of an arab village alit title grand duke was of medieval origin being first found in moscow in the eleventh century it traveled to southern europe in 1469 when plus pius N V basi bestowed owed it on cos cosmo mo de medici |