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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats