Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Magistracy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Magistracy.
- noun Administration of law; civil government.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Magistracy.
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- noun
Magistracy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of magistrate
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Examples
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For the moment, SOQUIJ has the support of the Bar of Quebec, the magistrature, the Chamber of notaries, and also from MALL.
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And do not they then that stand so well affected towards applause and fame themselves own they cast away very extraordinary pleasures, when they decline, magistrature, public offices, and the favor and confidences of princes, from whom
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Wednesday, taking tight control of almost all institutions in the former Zaire, apart from the magistrature, left "independent".
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The retired registrar, the pensioned usher aspiring late in life to some petty magistrature, are powerless to touch his heart.
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Gringoire went onwe know that he had no great love for the magistrature, owing, may-be, to the grudge he bore against the Palais de Justice ever since his dramatic misadventure.
I. The Crown Piece Changed into a Withered Leaf. Book VIII 1917
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Until 1818 they had owned all but seventeen houses of the inner town; they had their own magistrature.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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The magistrature is an institution of prime importance for us.
The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' Herman Bernstein 1905
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Certainly it exposes the abuses of the French magistrature, but at what cost of fundamental truth!
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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The "Substitut" always preserved a rather deferential attitude before the President and M. Ducros, for they belonged to the magistrature assise, whilst he merely formed part of the magistrature debout The French word magistrat is not the equivalent of our magistrate, the French term for which is "Juge de Paix."
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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The retired registrar, the pensioned usher aspiring late in life to some petty magistrature, are powerless to touch his heart.
The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete Ren�� Bazin 1892
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