magisterial

1. a. Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. Source: opted

2. a. Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. Source: opted

3. adj. of or relating to a magistrate Source: wordnet

4. adj. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power Source: wordnet

5. adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person Source: wordnet

6. 1. Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. When magisterial duties from his home Her father called. Glover. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Sir T. Browne. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange. 2. (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant. -- Magisterial, Dogmatical, Arrogant. One who is magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his pupils; one who is dogmatical lays down his positions in a tone of authority or dictation; one who is arrogant in sults others by an undue assumption of superiority. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant. Source: webster

7. Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. SeeMagistery, 2. Source: adambom

8. j:100 a. of or relating to a magistrate Source: ecdict

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