Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a magistrate; magisterial.
- adjective Prepared as specified by a physician's prescription. Used of medicine.
- adjective Principal; main.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Befitting a master or magistrate; magisterial; authoritative.
- Having sovereign remedial qualities.
- In pharmacy, prescribed or prepared for the occasion: applied to medicines which are not kept prepared or made up.
- noun In alchemy and old medicine, a sovereign medicine or remedy.
- noun In fortification, the guiding line from which the position of the other lines or works is determined.
- noun An officer in cathedral and collegiate churches and royal chapels in Spain, generally a canon, whose duty it was to preach a certain course of sermons.
- noun 4 (Sp. pron. ma-his-träl′ ). Copper pyrites or other sulphureted ores of copper roasted at a carefully regulated temperature with free access of air. It is used in the Mexican “patio process” (which see, under
process ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), obsolete A sovereign medicine or remedy.
- noun (Fort.) A magistral line.
- noun (Metal.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
- adjective Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
- adjective Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign.
- adjective (Pharmacy) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to
officinal , and said of prescriptions and medicines. - adjective (Fort.) the guiding line, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sovereign medicine or remedy.
- noun A magistral line.
- noun
Powdered copper pyrites used in theamalgamation ofores ofsilver , as at theSpanish mines ofMexico andSouth America .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And therefore the most real diversity of method is of method referred to use, and method referred to progression: whereof the one may be termed magistral, and the other of probation.
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And therefore the most real diversity of method is of method referred to use, and method referred to progression: whereof the one may be termed magistral, and the other of probation.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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La actitud de CNN en Español el domingo 28 cubriendo el golpe de Estado en Honduras es una clase magistral para estudiantes acerca del periodismo que desprestigia la profesión.
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La sala Emili Vives del Consell Comarcal del Montsià estava plena de gom a gom, disposada a escoltar el que fou una sessió magistral sobre el nou món social i participatiu a internet, centrat en la política però extrapolable a tots els camps vitals de tots nosaltres.
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August 19th, 2007 at 3: 14 am estoy con el “ojo cuadrado”, me impresiona ver la creatividad magistral de este artista. parecen tan reales!
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Toronto Star | A Space Odyssey's feuding fathers Reflectindo sobre a mais conhecida das obras de Arthur C. Clarke, a sua magistral colaboração com o cineasta Stanley Kubrick, que originou o mais perfeito dos filmes de ficção científica.
Leituras Artur 2008
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Herman Melville, autor inesquecível graças à magistral obra que é Moby Dick descreve assim Talus, andróide criado pelo genial inventor Bannadonna para tocar os sinos da sua maravilhosa obra de arquitectura renascentista que é a torre sineira que dá o título ao conto The Bell Tower.
Imitações de Vida Artur 2007
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Minister wet to lee, pour the Falernian and gear me chalices, ah by bitterest, the law's Postumia, you bet magistral, eh breezy kin a grape-loving breeziness.
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Therefore here is the deficience which I find, that physicians have not, partly out of their own practice, partly out of the constant probations reported in books, and partly out of the traditions of empirics, set down and delivered over certain experimental medicines for the cure of particular diseases, besides their own conjectural and magistral descriptions.
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Silver and gold are the only metals that have claimed the attention of the Californians, because they derive an advantage from their extraction, and not because there do not exist other metals less valuable, but which yield proportionably greater profit to the miners that undertake the exploration; these are lead, copper, iron, magistral, crystal of Roca, loadstone, and alum.
adoarns commented on the word magistral
The opposite of officinal, describes medicines which an apothecary's has to cook up special; it's not normally kept in stock. Compounding pharmacies do this.
December 19, 2007