Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Magistral character, conduct, or teaching; magisterial air or authority.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

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  • noun Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

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Examples

  • Ottomans, thought he could not reign except the first thing he did he killed all his brethren; yet to those that seek truth and not magistrality, it cannot but seem a matter of great profit, to see before them the several opinions touching the foundations of nature.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Ottomans, thought he could not reign except the first thing he did he killed all his brethren; yet to those that seek truth and not magistrality, it cannot but seem a matter of great profit, to see before them the several opinions touching the foundations of nature.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

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