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magisterial, a.|ˌmædʒɪˈstɪərɪəl|
Also 7 mages-, magisteriall.
[ad. med.L. magisteriālis, f. late L. magisterius, f. L. magister master n.]
Of or pertaining to a master or a magistrate.
†1. Of or pertaining to a master-workman; displaying a master's skill; also, having the qualifications of a master. Obs.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §34 These are certainly the Magisterial and master-pieces of the Creator. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. ii. i. 90 Though it concede somewhat to it in the execution and magisterial handling. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. (1686) 343 These [Engravings] are not designed for Magisterial Artists.
2. Of, pertaining, or proper to a master or teacher, or one qualified to speak with authority. Of opinions, utterances, etc.: Authoritative. Of persons: Having the bearing of a master; invested with authority. Sometimes in unfavourable sense: Assuming authority, dictatorial.
1632Sanderson Serm. ad Pop. (1681) 293 [They] exercise a spiritual Lordship over their disciples..by imposing upon their consciences sundry Magisterial conclusions. 1644Milton Judgm. Bucer To Parlt., Wks. 1851 IV. 299 Where they thought to be most Magisterial, they have display'd their own want, both of reading, and of judgment. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 427 Not to make any one's opinion so magisterial and binding, but that I might be at liberty to recede from it. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. ix. § 23 It would become us to be..less magisterial, positive, and imperious, in imposing our own Sense and Interpretations. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1698) 86 These Magisterial Propositions don't Dispute for Belief, but demand it. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 101 A Magisterial Air and too much Heat and Passion appear in their Writings. 1819Byron Juan ii. lvi, For Juan wore the magisterial face Which courage gives. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. vi. § 54. 317 There is something magisterial in the manner wherein he dismisses each play like a boy's exercise. 1903Class. Rev. XVII. 131/2 His magisterial method of criticism as exhibited in the castigation of Thucydides.
3. Of, pertaining to, or proper to a magistrate or magistrates. Of persons: Holding the office of a magistrate. Of an inquiry: Conducted by magistrates.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 31 When the laws or higher powers enable such men to nominate their magistrate, there the nominators are the instruments by which the law does transfer this magisterial power. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. vi. iii. (1737) III. 363 We need give her only in her hand the..Magisterial Sword. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 288 While this military man acted in the magisterial office. 1795Coleridge Plot Discovered 27 Any man, whom a magisterial neighbour chooses to insult under pretext of suspicion. 1883Fortn. Rev. May 693 The progressive extension of magisterial jurisdiction. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 Feb. 4/6 The magisterial inquiry into the charge of arson.
†4. Alch. and Med. Pertaining to a magistery; also, = magistral 2. Obs.
1658Phillips s.v., A pill or plaister, &c. prepared after the best manner is called Magisterial. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. ii. 3 It [the word kern] may intend also that magisterial pouder of Projection. 1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2), Magisterial Remedy, is yet sometimes retained in the Cant of Empiricks, more for its great Sound than any Significancy.
†5. quasi-n. or n. = magistery 3. Obs.
1638H. Shirley Mart. Soldier iii. iv. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 217 With it was dissolv'd the Magisteriall Made of the Horne Armenia so much boast of. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. Pref., Every man must have his own Compositions and Magisterials. 1658Osborn Jas. I, Wks. (1673) 533 This Monster in excess, eat..a whole Pie..composed of Amber-Greece, Magesterial of Pearl, Musk, &c. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 215 Magisterials among Chymists, do indeed melt the body of a thing, and do open it with a seperating of some certain dregs also. |