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magistrate
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “On receipt of the authority to proceed, the metropolitan magistrate may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person specified.”
      “In due course she served here as a magistrate, then chief registrar of the high court.”
      “Throughout the present brief, Microsoft protests its innocence with as much conviction as an old lag before a magistrate.”
magistery
  1. Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
  2. A magisterial injunction.
  3. (chemistry) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions
  4. Examples:
    1. “He answered, 'Their writings are only to be understood by the adepts, without whom no student can prepare this magistery.”
      “The jurists, who multiply commentaries, model themselves after the theologians by practicing the Spagyric Magistery.”
      “This year's winners include Stegall, John Jacob Magistery, and Nightmare Air.”
magister
  1. Master; sir: a title used in the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
  2. The possessor of a master's degree.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Tilney was principally a lawyer, although variously described as magister, clerk, bachelor-of-law, esquire, gentleman, and husbandman.”
      “The great majority of, if not all, important figures in medieval music bear the title magister.”
      “The most thoroughly studied system is the ontogeny of hemocyanin structure and function in Cancer magister, the Dungeness crab.”
magistracy
  1. The office or dignity of a magistrate.
  2. The collective body of magistrates.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “There must be a magistracy that is unshrinking in the execution of the laws.”
      “The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor.”
      “If they must tackle it with purpose, they will need back-up from the laws applicable to illegal guns, and from the magistracy and judiciary.”
magisterialness
magistrality
magisteriality
magistrateship
  1. The role or status of magistrate.
magistrature
magistrateships
  1. plural of magistrateship
magistratures
  1. plural of magistrature
magistralities
  1. plural of magistrality
magistrates
  1. plural of magistrate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But the superintendent of police said the prisoner was the sort to wander off, and so magistrates refused his request and sent him back to jail.”
      “This had the effect of excluding Quakers from certain public offices, most significantly those of magistrates and judges.”
      “The 13-year-olds were found guilty of breaching an order, but walked free from court after magistrates imposed a two-year supervision order.”
magistracies
  1. plural of magistracy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Amicitia principum, friendship with the emperor, was a sure way of gaining access to senatorial magistracies and other honorable positions.”
      “Other magistracies, the aedileship and the tribunate of the plebs, might be held between quaestorship and praetorship, but were not obligatory.”
      “Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy, in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.”
magisteries
  1. plural of magistery
magisters
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