magisterial

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[ UK /mˌæd‍ʒɪstˈi‍əɹɪə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌmædʒɪˈstiɹiəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  2. of or relating to a magistrate
    official magisterial functions
  3. 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
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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.
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