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magisterial

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Adjective
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mag=is=te=ri=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

magisteriala. [L. magisterius magisterial. See Master.].
  •  Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.  [1913 Webster]
    "When magisterial duties from his home
    Her father called.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man."  [1913 Webster]
    "Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

magisterial, adj.
1 imperious.
2 invested with authority.
3 of or conducted by a magistrate.
4 (of a work, opinion, etc.) highly authoritative.

Derivative
magisterially adv.
Etymology
med.L magisterialis f. LL magisterius f. L magister MASTER

THESAURUS

magisterial

Daedalian, U, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, accepted, adept, adroit, approved, apt, arbitrary, arch, aristocratic, arrogant, artistic, august, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, banner, bloated, bossy, bravura, brilliant, capital, cardinal, cathedral, central, champion, chief, clean, clever, coordinated, courtly, crack, crackerjack, crowning, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, despotic, dexterous, dextrous, dictatorial, dignified, diplomatic, disdainful, dogmatic, dominant, domineering, elitist, ex cathedra, excellent, expert, fancy, feudal, first, focal, foremost, good, goodish, graceful, grand, grave, great, grinding, handy, headmost, hegemonic, high and mighty, high-handed, hubristic, imperative, imperial, imperious, important, imposing, ingenious, insolent, judicative, judicatorial, judicatory, judicial, judiciary, jurisdictive, kingly, leading, lordly, magistral, main, majestic, master, masterful, masterly, monocratic, neat, no mean, noble, official, oppressive, overbearing, overruling, paramount, peremptory, politic, pontifical, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, princely, principal, professional, proficient, puffy, queenly, quick, quite some, ranking, ready, received, regal, repressive, resourceful, royal, ruling, sedate, self-important, severe, skillful, slick, sober, solemn, some, sovereign, standard, star, stately, statesmanlike, statuesque, stellar, strict, stuffy, stylish, supercilious, supereminent, suppressive, tactful, the compleat, the complete, topflight, tyrannical, tyrannous, venerable, virtuoso, well-done, workmanlike, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

magisterial

Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.

Insolence

N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).


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