magIstracy

[Eng. magistra ( te ); -cy.] 1. The office or dignity of a magistrate. "That indistinct and fluctuating character which belongs to the accounts of the origins of the other ancient magistracies."-Lewis: Cred. Early Roman Hist . (1855), ii. 36. 2. The whole body of magistrates collectively. mag-Is-tral, *mag-Is-trall, a . & 8. [Lat. mag istralis , from magister =a master.] A. As adjective : 1. Of or pertaining to a magistrate; suiting a magistrate; magisterial. "Your a ertion of the original of set forms of liturgy, I justly say is more magi str all than true, and such as your own testimonies confute." -Bp . Hall : Answer to the Vind. of Smectymnuus, § 2. 2. Of or pertaining to a sovereign remedy or medicine; acting as a sovereign remedy. "Let it be some magi str all opiate." -Bacon : Hist . of Life and Death , p. 29. 3. Applied to a preparation prescribed extemporaneously or for the occasion; as distinguished from an officinal medicine, or one kept prepared in the shops. IMG:content-0820.png:[blocks in formation] marine; gō, pot, magistrality (2) The guiding line which defines the first figure of the works of a fortification. Called also magistral line. *2. Med .: A sovereign medicine or remedy. "I finde a vaste chaos of medicines, a confusion of receipts and magistrals, amongst writers, appropriated to this disease, some of the chiefest I will rehearse."- Bur ton: Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 382. 3. Metall .: A substance obtained from copper pyrites (or raw magistral), which is found in many parts of Mexico. These ores, according to Napier, contain from 7:47 to 13:75 per cent. of copper. It is roduced to powder by dry stamping and grinding. It is used especially in the patio proce of amalgamation. Some authorities state that the copper pyrites are roasted and ground, but this would seem to detract from their activity, which is due to the action of their sulphuric acid upon the salt, liber at ing muriatic acid. măg-is-trăl-1-ty, s. [English magistral; -ity.] Despotic authority, as in matter of opinion; dogmatism. "The physicians have frustrated the fruit of tradition and experience by their magistralities , in adding, and taking out, and changing."-Bacon: On Learning, bk. ii. măg-Is-tral-lỹ, adv. [Eng. magistral; -ly.] In a magistral manner; magisterially, dogmatically, despotically. mag-is-trănd', s . [Low Latin magistrand us , gerund of magistro to make a master of, to confer a degree on, from Lat. magister =a master.] In the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, a student in arts in the last year of his curriculum.