Or, lastly, the extraordinary magisterial authority was based on the right of delegation vested in the supreme magistrate. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Official magisterial functions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Though I was sometimes described as magisterial, she was never so described. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Albert Gore, March 13, 1976. Interview A-0321-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Gals just don't figure, but the misogyny, kooky and magisterial, is all part of the fun. From Wordnik.com. [Gender Bending] Reference
Maureen Kincaid Speller likes my story. (unless "magisterial" just means pompous). From Wordnik.com. [Reviews] Reference
Secondly there are no "Catholic theological authorities", as if theologians have some kind of magisterial function. From Wordnik.com. [USA Today lies about Catholic stance on abortion] Reference
Initially hailed as "magisterial," The Origins of the Korean War soon gathered up its robes and retired to chambers. From Wordnik.com. [Mother of All Mothers] Reference
Here follows a detailed account of the kind of magisterial power which the superintendents found themselves called upon to "assume," though they "had it not.". From Wordnik.com. [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference
This must be what CannedWest Ian MacDonald meant yesterday when he referred to Harper as "magisterial" and described how he "has assumed the mantle as well as the office.". From Wordnik.com. [Harper : My tar sands trumps your planet] Reference
Initially hailed as "magisterial," The Origins of the Korean. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
Martin Marty said of the work that it is "a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'.". From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
3. There should be a moratorium on the use of the word "magisterial" in book reviews. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: KEEPING IT SIMPLE.] Reference
A chair, has a book in his hand, and is attired in a kind of magisterial robe bordered with fur. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The beard lent me an air of magisterial authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
Jefferson Davis had a military and magisterial look. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
He is on a hundred thousand magisterial benches every day. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
A fat magisterial book on archdeaconry in 16th-century St Albans?. From Wordnik.com. [In praise of losers] Reference
"Let the recognizances be estreated," was the magisterial comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
He was evidently a regular attendant to his magisterial duties on the. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
In his magisterial and readable biography of Adams, McCullough clearly takes the side of his protagonist. From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia] Reference
BARRACKPUR, a town and magisterial subdivision of British India, in the district of Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
What do you make of this mysterious sense of duty which lays its magisterial hand upon us and will not be denied?. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
He was Paul's senior by three years at most, but he had as magisterial and assured a manner as if he had been fifty. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
There he fell under the spell of the paper's editor, Mr. Freeman, author of a magisterial biography of Robert E. Lee. From Wordnik.com. [A Courtly Warrior for Conservatism] Reference
Manchester went on to write magisterial biographies, among them "American Caesar," the life of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. From Wordnik.com. [TRANSITION] Reference
But it takes an economist of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's standing to convert that proposition into a magisterial book. From Wordnik.com. [Winning Argument] Reference
So while conventional wisdom holds that cash is now king, it lacks the magisterial authority to make problems disappear. From Wordnik.com. [Big Business Is Not to Blame] Reference
In the face of Rickman's magisterial mugging, Costner keeps his characteristic cool, underplaying to the point of blandness. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Gets Seriously Silly] Reference
Then there was a little pause, which Miss Bey broke by asking in her magisterial way, "What is that you are reading, my dear?". From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
But with Donald Runnicles conducting and the magisterial Willard White as Francis, it couldn't have a better shot at the canon. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Arts Preview: Music] Reference
Kahn's magisterial buildings have the power of ancient monuments, and the undercurrents of his private life are as old as time. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
When the knight saw him in his magisterial capacity, he was probably sober and sedate; here he is represented a little disguised. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
= A spear placed in the ground was a symbol of magisterial authority, and as such was always present at the letting of tax contracts. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
If all such passages had been cut, this would be a novel of far less magisterial heft, and we'd have a better idea of how it fits together. From Wordnik.com. [Reports From The Heartland] Reference
It was my habit to think and believe of him that he was the stupidest person that ever sat upon the magisterial bench in any capacity, civil or military. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Hastings himself, on a short journey for some magisterial purpose, entered the room, spoke a few words to Mrs. Hazleton, and then turned to his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The justice of the peace court is the lowest court and is held by a justice of peace, called a magistrate, who is elected in that magisterial district by the voters. From Wordnik.com. [Citizenship A Manual for Voters] Reference
The organisation of the Universitas ultimately confined membership of congregation to students, and the powers of the Rector rendered the magisterial jurisdiction merely nominal. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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