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magistrate

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magistrate \Mag"is*trate\, n. [L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master .] A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. ``All Christian ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "civil officer in charge of administering laws," from Old French magistrat , from Latin magistratus "a magistrate, public functionary," originally "magisterial rank or office," from magistrare "serve as a magistrate," from magister "chief, director" ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome , a magistratus was one of the highest ranking government officers, and possessed both judicial and executive ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice [syn: judge , justice , jurist ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both. 2 (context Quebec English) A master's degree

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Magistrates' Court stipendiary magistrate COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE examining ▪ The process passes into its second stage when the prosecutor submits his dossier to an examining magistrate . ▪ The examining ...

Usage examples of magistrate.

The magistrate was acquainted with the girl, and the mother laughed at having duped me so easily.

Gloucestershire Bert went northward to the British aeronautic park outside Birmingham, in the hope that he might be taken on and given food, for there the Government, or at any rate the War Office, still existed as an energetic fact, concentrated amidst collapse and social disaster upon the effort to keep the British flag still flying in the air, and trying to brisk up mayor and mayor and magistrate and magistrate in a new effort of organisation.

Isemonger, wife of the police magistrate of the Province, met me on the bright, green lawn studded with clumps of alamanda, which surrounds their lovely, palm-shaded bungalow.

Byzantine court, so ambitiously solicited by their dukes, would have degraded the magistrates of a free people.

I cannot recollect now, and could not render into English were I to recall them, should, upon complaint of the person aggrieved, and upon proof of the offence by the evidence of worthy and truth-speaking witnesses, be amerced in such penalty, not exceeding a certain sum, as in the estimation of the presiding magistrate should be held to be a proper compensation for the injury to his reputation suffered by the plaintiff.

In consequence of these lamentable occurrences, and the excited state of the northern districts of the kingdom, on the 22nd of July, Lord John Russell announced his intention of taking the requisite precautions for securing the tranquillity of the country, by placing at the hands of the magistrates a better organized constitutional force for putting the law into execution, and providing sufficient military means for supporting them in the performance of their duty.

Finally he and the magistrate finished their chat, and we glowered at Arem as he shut the door.

That this magistrate of austere appearance may have committed a crime in no way permits me to know him better.

One day, in the month of August it was, I had gone on some private concernment of my own to Kilmarnock, and Mr Booble, who was then oldest Bailie, naturally officiated as chief magistrate in my stead.

La Fayette, whom this measure had left without employment, feeling keenly the diminution of his importance, and instigated by the restlessness common to men of moderate capacity, conceived the hope of succeeding Bailly in the mayoralty of Paris, which that magistrate was on the point of resigning.

It was also in the Baptistery that the Florentines crowned poets and invested magistrates, blessed departing soldiers and honored those who returned from the wars.

When I had finished the letter I sent it to the magistrate, and then I began my packing.

The magistrate was kept waiting another ten minutes before the bail bondsman arrived.

He saw a man of elegant and easy figure, still young, with nothing solemn or imposing about him, having more the air of a boulevardier or of a sportsman than of a magistrate.

Bishop Steuben and the magistrate Bruer provoked confessions from the innocent and the guilty.