magisterial

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It's truly magisterial, and will give you insight not just on Dewey but on the entire sweep of his intellectual age as well.

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of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"

adjective

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"

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for magisterial.

adjective

of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"

adjective

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"

See also: distinguished, grand, imposing

Example sentences

It's truly magisterial, and will give you insight not just on Dewey but on the entire sweep of his intellectual age as well.

In some ways, I like it better than the magisterial "Years of Lyndon Johnson".Highly, highly recommended.

You don't have to understand the inner operations of magisterial courts all that well if you can appreciate that killing people is generally a bad idea.

Intelligence does not always translate well across magisterial boundaries.

The Roman Censor was a magisterial position that in addition to running the census in regular intervals also responsible for morality laws also known as regimen morum.

Thanks largely to its scriptural use and Pāṇini's absolutely magisterial grammatical description meant mostly to protect the meaning of those scriptures, it was frozen in time at a much more rigid and inflected state than any of its Indo-European cousins.