MAGISTRAL

Etymology

Adjective

magistral (comparative more magistral, superlative most magistral)

Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative. [from 16th c.]

(obsolete, pharmaceutical effect) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective. [16th-17th c.]

(pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. [from 16th c.]

Noun

magistral (countable and uncountable, plural magistrals)

(pharmaceutical drug) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

(countable) A magistral line.

(mostly, uncountable) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

Anagrams

• altigrams, tragalism

Source: Wiktionary

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Mag"is*tral, a. Etym: [L. magistralis: cf. F. magistral. See Magistrate.]

1. Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

2. Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. "Some magistral opiate." Bacon.

3. (Pharmacy)

Definition: Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison. Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.

Mag"is*tral, n.

1. (Med.)

Definition: A sovereign medicine or remedy. [Obs.] Burton.

2. (Fort.)

Definition: A magistral line.

3. (Metal.)

Definition: Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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