Associations to the word «Magistral»

Wiktionary

MAGISTRAL, adjective. Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative. [from 16th c.]
MAGISTRAL, adjective. (obsolete) (pharmacology) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective. [16th-17th c.]
MAGISTRAL, adjective. (pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. [from 16th c.]
MAGISTRAL, noun. A sovereign medicine or remedy.
MAGISTRAL, noun. A magistral line.
MAGISTRAL, noun. Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
MAGISTRAL LINE, noun. The guiding line, or outline, or outline, by which the form of a fortified work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.
MAGISTRAL LINES, noun. Plural of magistral line

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras