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magisterial::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | distinguished, grand, imposing |
she reigned in magisterial beauty.
magisterial::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way.
magisterial:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | magistrate |
official magisterial functions.
Examples of magisterial
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Now, the assemblies were only used to hear the results of magisterial elections.
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The Thames may glitter prettily, the parks may be magisterial this Sunday morning.
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Ax proved willing to inhabit both extremes, and did so with magisterial technique.
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Then Bley shuffled to the piano for a 35-minute set that was magisterial at times.
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This week we excerpt Chernow's magisterial new biography, Alexander Hamilton.
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Magisterial costs and fines fall in, most justly too, for a share of censure.
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He was released on $25,000 bond by a Burgettstown magisterial district judge.
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It is Phillips's only other version of the NPG's own magisterial portrait of Burton.
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The ballot also carries three magisterial, or justice of the peace, offices.
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- Of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"
- Autocratic: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering ...
- Distinguished: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
- (magisterially) dictatorially: in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator; "this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues"
- (magisterially) authoritatively: in an authoritative and magisterial manner; "she spoke authoritatively"
- A magistrate is a judicial officer; in ancient Rome, the word magistratus denoted one of the highest government officers with judicial and executive powers. Today, in common law systems, a magistrate has limited law enforcement and administration authority. ...
- (Magisterium) In the Roman Catholic Church the word "Magisterium" refers to the teaching authority of the Church. ...
- (Magisterium (fencing)) Historical European martial arts is a neologism describing martial arts of European origin, used particularly to refer to arts formerly practised, but having since died out or evolved into very different forms. ...
- (Magisterium) The living, teaching office of the Church, whose task it is to give as authentic interpretation of the word of God, whether in its written form (Sacred Scripture), or in the form of Tradition. ...
