Definitions for lictor

lictor lic·tor

Spelling: [lik-ter]
IPA: /ˈlɪk tər/

Lictor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in lictor (cilort).

Definitions for lictor

noun

  1. (in ancient Rome) one of a body of attendants on chief magistrates, who preceded them carrying the fasces and whose duties included executing the sentences of criminals.

Origin of lictor

1580-90; Latin; compare Middle English littoures

Examples for lictor

What we learn of the Centurion, the Triumvir, and the lictor, is very trifling.

The Chief lictor had distributed these torches with an unheard-of liberality.

I'll a lictor straight despatch, To seize on her, for she belongs to me.Oppius.

He stayed the hand of the lictor after the first blow, and then slipped between the heavy lid and the pavement a kind of hook.

Suddenly the lictor himself appeared, and cried out, Do you wish to ruin me?

The lictor cried, "Sentence has been given," and bade Icilius give place.

lictor, apostrophised by Cassiodorus in his 'Indulgentia,' xi.

The sun was mirrored in the shining coat of his horse, and in the lictor's axe he bore, carrying it like a commander's staff.

By testament, by the census, and by the vindicta, or lictor's rod.

He gripped his useless hickory as if it had been a lictor's staff of unchallengeable office.

Word Value for lictor
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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