[
UK
/mˌædʒɪstˈiəɹɪəl/
]
[ US /ˌmædʒɪˈstiɹiəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌmædʒɪˈstiɹiəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
an autocratic person
autocratic behavior
a rather aggressive and dominating character
managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
a bossy way of ordering others around
a swaggering peremptory manner -
of or relating to a magistrate
official magisterial functions -
used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
his distinguished bearing
she reigned in magisterial beauty
the monarch's imposing presence
How To Use magisterial In A Sentence
- A crest of wavy, blond hair was loosely rooted on a magisterial forehead.
- But as the first sections of his magisterial work appeared, the reviews were glowing. Times, Sunday Times
- He talked with the magisterial authority of the head of the family.
- He will not be able to change his residential address or leave the magisterial district without approval from the head of community corrections.
- I can picture him now, often speaking without a note, with humour, incisive argument and magisterial disdain for the opposing view, swatting away anyone ill-judged enough to make a hostile intervention.
- At the 1991 census, Utrecht town had a population of 2,866, representing only 10 percent of the total population in the magisterial district.
- Behind, on a shelf, stands a magisterial cash-register, which looks as if it has been ringing up the pounds, shillings and pence since the dawn of time.
- Whereafter I was confined to the capital city of Windhoek, the magisterial district, I had to hand in my passport and report to the police station several times a week for a couple of months.
- In this magisterial tour d' horizon of the changing 20 th-century US presidency, Stephen Graubard argues that war and the threat of war have been factors as salient in the development of the presidency as the personalities involved.
- The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.