Associations to the word «Magisterial»

Wiktionary

MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority.
MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery.

Dictionary definition

MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions".
MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner".
MAGISTERIAL, adjective. Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca