magic circle

A circle invented by Dr. Franklin, founded upon the same principles and po e ing similar properties with the magic square of squares. magistral Red Sea, and on the coast of Java and the Mauritius. When young the shell of Magilus is spiral and thus, as the animal eats its way horizontally through the living ma of coral, it becomes prolonged into an irregular tube, filled with solid shell matter, the animal residing at the extremity. The tube is sometimes fifteen inches long, and very heavy. The animal has a concentric lamellar operculum, with its nucleus near the outer edge. ( Woodward .) *ma-gis-ter, s. (Lat.) Master, sir; a mode of addre equivalent to the modern Doctor. mag-is-tër-i-al, a. [Lat. magister i us =belonging to a master; magister = a master.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Pertaining to or befitting a master; suitable to a master. 2. Domineering, proud, arrogant, insolent, despotic, dogmatic, imperious. "He hides behind a magisterial air, His own offences." Cowper: Charity, 493. 3. Of or pertaining to a magistrate. "The plump convivial parson often bears The magisterial sword in vain." Cowper: Task, iv. 596. *4. Of the rank of a magistrate. *II. Chem.: Pertaining to magistery. *mag-is-tër-i-al-i-ty, subst . [Eng. magisterial ; -ity.] Domination. "When these statutes were first in the state or mag is teriality thereof."- Fuller: Ch. Hist., IX. iv. 11. mag-is-tër-I-al-ly, adv. [ Eng.magisterial; -ly.] 1. In a magisterial manner; with the air of a master; arrogantly, despotically, dogmatically. "The claim of infallibility, or even of authority to prescribe magisterially to the opinions and consciences of men, whether in an individual, or in a emblies and col. lections of men, is never to be admitted."- Bp . Horsley, vol. ii., ser. 15.