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What is a magistrate?

What is a magistrate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
  2. (historical) A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
  3. (historical, by extension) A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
  4. (Quebec) A master's degree.
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A journalist in Melbourne wrote a column suggesting that a local magistrate was too lenient on criminals.
On receipt of the authority to proceed the metropolitan magistrate may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person specified.
The long-suffering wife looked up at the magistrate and her reply was terse.
In due course she served here as a magistrate, then chief registrar of the high court.
I appeared in Worthing Magistrates court when Jack was given unconditional bail and told these facts to the court and the magistrate.
Her father, a noble magistrate in Grenoble, sent her, against her wishes, to become a nun.

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