MAGISTE'RIAL, adjective [See Magistrate.] Pertaining to a master; such as suits a master; authoritative. 1. Proud; lofty; arrogant; imperious; domineering. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. 2. In chimistry, pertaining to magistery, which see.
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