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Magisterial
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What's The Definition Of Magisterial?
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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 peremptory manner" [adj] of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions" Synonyms | Synonyms for Magisterial: autocratic | bossy | dignified | distinguished | dominating | domineering | high-and-mighty | imposing | peremptory Related Terms | Find terms related to Magisterial: absolute | absolutist | absolutistic | accepted | adept | adroit | approved | apt | arbitrary | arch | aristocratic | arrogant | artistic | august | authentic | authoritarian | authoritative | autocratic | banner | bloated | bossy | bravura | brilliant | capital | cardinal | cathedral | central | champion | chief | clean | clever | coordinated | courtly | crack | crackerjack | crowning | cunning | cute | daedal | Daedalian | deft | despotic | dexterous | dextrous | dictatorial | dignified | diplomatic | disdainful | dogmatic | dominant | domineering | elitist | ex cathedra | excellent | expert | fancy | feudal | first | focal | foremost | good | goodish | graceful | grand | grave | great | grinding | handy | headmost | hegemonic | high and mighty | high-handed | hubristic | imperative | imperial | imperious | important | imposing | ingenious | insolent | judicative | judicatorial | judicatory | judicial | judiciary | jurisdictive | kingly | leading | lordly | magistral | main | majestic | master | masterful | masterly | monocratic | neat | no mean | noble | official | oppressive | overbearing | overruling | paramount | peremptory | politic | pontifical | predominant | preeminent | preponderant | prevailing | primal | primary | prime | princely | principal | professional | proficient | puffy | queenly | quick | quite some | ranking | ready | received | regal | repressive | resourceful | royal | ruling | sedate | self-important | severe | skillful | slick | sober | solemn | some | sovereign | standard | star | stately | statesmanlike | statuesque | stellar | strict | stuffy | stylish | supercilious | supereminent | suppressive | tactful | the compleat | the complete | topflight | tyrannical | tyrannous | U | venerable | virtuoso | well-done | workmanlike | worthy See Also | Magisterial In Webster's Dictionary \Mag`is*te"ri*al\, a. [L. magisterius magisterial.
See {Master}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in
authority; having the manner of a magister; official;
commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing;
dictatorial; dogmatic.
When magisterial duties from his home Her father
called. --Glover.
We are not magisterial in opinions, nor,
dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. --Sir
T. Browne.
Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair
words and magisterial looks for current payment.
--L'Estrange.
2. (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of
the nature of, magistery. See {Magistery}, 2.
Syn: Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified;
lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty;
domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.
Usage: {Magisterial}, {Dogmatical}, {Arrogant}. One who is
magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his
pupils; one who is dogmatical lays down his positions
in a tone of authority or dictation; one who is
arrogant in sults others by an undue assumption of
superiority. Those who have long been teachers
sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which
borders too much on the magisterial, and may be
unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant.
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