magistral

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Here is a magistral power accorded to Congress, utterly inconsistent with the pretensions of State Rights.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

Mr. S. Lane-Poole has contracted to "do" a life of Lord Stratford, and, ergo, he condemns me in magistral tone and a style of uncalled-for impertinence, to act as his "advt."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He has matured, become virile and even magistral.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

In itself it can hardly be termed a magistral work, inasmuch as all the theories enunciated in it are, at least, twenty years old, and appear to us to-day quite worn out and decrepit.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various