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magistrature|ˈmædʒɪstrətjʊə(r)|
[a. F. magistrature, f. magistrat magistrate n.]
1. The dignity or office of a magistrate; magisterial office; occas. the exercise of the office; with a and pl. an individual office. (Cf. magistracy 3.)
1672Essex Papers (Camden) 23 That noe person whatsoever bee admitted into any Place of Magistrature or Government..till [etc.]. 1791State Papers in Ann. Reg. 183 *In case..of a collision between magistratures. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Marcus Tullius & Quinctus Cicero Wks. 1853 I. 238/1 Finding all our magistratures in the disposal of the senate. 1829Ibid., Diog. & Plato ibid. 504/1 Giving to this one rightly what that one would hold wrongfully, is justice in magistrature. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 465 The family rose to the dignities of the magistrature. 1833Fraser's Mag. VII. 650 With these some of the magistratures are now filled.
fig.1796Burney Mem. Metastasio II. 325 Does music aspire at this supreme magistrature?
b. The term of a magistrate's office.
1720Ozell Vertot's Rom. Rep. I. i. 59 The two Consuls, whose Magistrature was expiring, appointed the Assembly for the Election of their Successors. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Leopold & Presid. du Paty Wks. 1853 I. 68/2 A..man, who can reproach himself with no perversion or neglect of justice, in a magistrature of twenty years.
2. collect. The body of magistrates; = magistracy 4.
1679Evelyn Diary 21 Nov., I dined at my Lord Mayor's..Such a..splendid magistrature does no city in the world show. 1830Examiner 548/1 The magistrature continued. The very men who had opposed the liberty of the press..continued in their positions. 1859Sat. Rev. VII. 273/2 That illustrious magistrature which, in former days, guided France by their counsels. 1898A. W. Ward in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 175 The conservative tendencies of the Belgian magistrature. |