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Definition: Magisterial |
MagisterialAdjective1. Of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions". 2. 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". 3. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "magisterial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Magisterial \Mag`is*te"ri*al\, adjective. [Latin expression magisterius magisterial. See Master.]. (references) |
Synonyms: MagisterialSynonyms: autocratic (adj), bossy (adj), distinguished (adj), dominating (adj), high-and-mighty (adj), imposing (adj), peremptory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown. |
Pride | Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Magisterial |
| English words defined with "magisterial": autocratic ♦ bossy ♦ distinguished, Dogmatic theology, Dogmatizer, dominating ♦ high-and-mighty ♦ imposing ♦ Magisterialness, Magistery, Magistral ♦ peremptory, Proctorial. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "magisterial": Minor civil division. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Magisterial" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (magisterial). |
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Economic History | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | There are 11 courts in three magisterial districts. (references) |
Malawi | Malawi's judicial system, based on the English model, is made up of magisterial lower courts, a High Court, and a Supreme Court of Appeal. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | However, in January the NHRC requested that the Commission be informed of any custodial death within 2 months, and that a post-mortem report, magisterial inquest, and a videography of the post-mortem be provided to the NHRC. In prison women are housed separately from men, in similar conditions. (references) |
Political Economy | Liberia | Within each circuit, there are magisterial courts and justice of the peace courts, which are not courts of record. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Magisterial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "Magisterial" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.15% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carrera magisterial | 14 |
magisterial movimiento | 7 |
carrera de magisterial resultados | 7 |
derrama magisterial | 6 |
magisterial | 4 |
district magisterial | 3 |
district magisterial office | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "magisterial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjyqësor (judicial, judiciary, juridical, legal), dominues (dominant, imperious, masterful, prevalent, regnant, upmost), autoritar (authoritarian, authoritative, commanding, domineering, high handed, imperious, masterful, overbearing, peremptory). (various references) | |
Arabic | قاضي صلح (justice of the peace, magistrate), وقور (lordly, proper, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid, thoughtful), ذو صلاحية, أمري (imperative, peremptory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдийски (judicial), кандидатски, господарски (lordly, magistral, manorial, seigniorial), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, grave, importable, important, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), заповеднически (dogmatic, imperative, imperious, overbearing, peremptory), авторитетен (authoritative, magistral, potent, weighty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有权威. (various references) | |
Czech | diktátorský (dictatorial), autoritativní (authoritative, definitive, imperative, imperious), úřednický (white collar). (various references) | |
French | magistral (masterly). (various references) | |
German | behördlich. (various references) | |
Greek | αγέρωχοσ (arrogant, cocky, haughty, imperious, overbearing), αυταρχικόσ (autocratic, autocratical, bossy, despotic, imperious, officious, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive), δικαστικόσ (judicial, judiciary, juridical, trial), δεσποτικόσ (absolute, imperious, masterful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | של שופט שלום, של בעל סמכות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hivatali (administrative, clerkly, hierarchic, hierarchical, trappings), hatósági (of the authorities, official, summons), oktató (coach, didactic, instructor, teacher, trainer, tutor), mesteri (masterful, masterly), magisztrális (magistral), ellentmondást nem tűrő (assertive, bossy, dogmatic, imperative, imperatorial, peremptory, self-assertive), diktatórikus (dictatorial, totalitarian). (various references) | |
Italian | magistrale (magistral, masterly, skilful, skillful), di magistrato, autoriato. (various references) | |
Korean | 엄연한. (various references) | |
Manx | mainshtyroil, kione-ardagh (assumer), ikagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agisterialmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | magistral (magistral, masterful, masterly), peremptório (peremptory), ditatorial (dictatorial, dog-cheap, overbearing, peremptory), autoritário (authoritarian, bossy, commanding, dictatorial, dog-cheap, domineering, emphatic, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, self-assertive). (various references) | |
Romanian | juridicar (magistral), juridic (forensic, judicial, jural, juridic, juridical, juristic, juristical, justiciary, legally), de magistrat (judicial), ca un magistrat. (various references) | |
Russian | судебный (adjudicative, forensic, judicial, judiciary, justiciary). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | majstorski (crack-a-jack, magistral, master, masterly), zapovednički (bossy, commanding, domineering, imperious, masterful, overbearing, possessive), ohol (arrogant, disdainful, haughtly, haughty, hoity toity, huffy, overbearing, overblown, proud, snippy, snooty, stuck up, supercilious), diktatorski (authoritarian, dictatorial), autoritativan (authoritative). (various references) | |
Spanish | magistral (magistral, masterly). (various references) | |
Swedish | myndig (adult, authoritative, commanding, full-grown, grown-up, imperative, imperial, imperious, lordly, major, of age, overbearing), magistral (magistral), magister-, diktatorisk (authoritarian, dictatorial, peremptory, totalitarian), auktoritativ (authoritative). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเชื่อถือไ"้ (authoritative). (various references) | |
Turkish | hakime ait, hakim (adjudicator, beak, commanding, dominant, dominating, judge, justice, predominant, recorder, ruler, savant, solon, sov'ran), amirane (authoritative, commandingly, dictatorial, imperiously, lordly, masterfully). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | судовий (forensic, judicial, judiciary, juridic, juridical, legal), владний (arbitrary, authoritarian, authoritative, dictatorial, high and mighty, high handed, imperative, imperious, masterful, overbearing), авторитетний (authoritative, excathedral). (various references) | |
Welsh | ynadol (judicial). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "magisterial": magisterially. (additional references) | |
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"Magisterial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: magesterial, Magistrala, Magistri, Megisserie, Mexiteria. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "magisterial" (pronounced ma'justē"rēul) |
| 8 | -u s t ē" r ē u l | ministerial. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, terrestrial, territorial, janitorial, malarial, managerial, material, memorial, mercurial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, tutorial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-m-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aerialist, artemisia, glairiest, magistral, materials. | |
-3 letters: agrestal, airmails, airtimes, alarmist, almagest, amirates, astigmia, gasalier, glariest, gremials, grimiest, lamister, limiters, magister, marliest, marlites, material, megastar, migrates, misalter, mistrial, ragtimes, ramilies, remigial, semigala, seriatim, sterigma. | |
-4 letters: aerials, aiglets, aigrets, airiest, airmail, airtime, alegars, amirate, amities, amritas, argalis, aristae, armlets, asteria, atresia, elitism, gaiters, gamiest, gastral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-m-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: magisterially, marginalities, materialising. | |
+3 letters: egalitarianism. | |
+4 letters: egalitarianisms, melodramatising. | |
+5 letters: deglamorizations, grammaticalities, maladministering. | |
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