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MAGISTERIAL
distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial
(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”
autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory
(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”
magisterial
(adjective) of or relating to a magistrate; “official magisterial functions”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
magisterial (comparative more magisterial, superlative most magisterial)
Befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
Of or pertaining to a master, magistrate, the magisterium, or one in authority.
Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery.
Source: Wiktionary
Mag`is*te"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. magisterius magisterial. See Master.]
1. 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. When magisterial duties from his home Her father called. Glover. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Sir T. Browne. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange.
2. (Alchem. & Old Chem.)
Definition: Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.
Syn.
– Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant.
– Magisterial, Dogmatical, Arrogant. One who is magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his pupils; one who is dogmatical lays down his positions in a tone of authority or dictation; one who is arrogant in sults others by an undue assumption of superiority. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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