magistral

Example Sentences

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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

Compounding that assay and calcination with magistral, nothing was obtained.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

"If I discover the magistral force, I shall be able to create."

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

He is undoubtedly the most magistral theorist of the day.

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