The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magistrature \Mag"is*tra`ture\, n. [Cf. F. magistrature.] Magistracy. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
n. magistracy.
WordNet
n. the position of magistrate [syn: magistracy]
Usage examples of "magistrature".
Certainly this much was obvious: that long, excessively flowery, rhetorical speeches about the reform of the magistrature were not going to alter this monument in a hurry.
How a criminal is handled, judged and regarded is the province of the magistrature, upon which the police officer may in no way intrude.
It gives also an opening to snivel in public about persecutions by the magistrature, with impunity accused of bias and corruption.
This is a plaque put up by the citizens of Qart Hadasht and the Council of the Hundred and Four, which was probably the magistrature or court in Carthage, to commemorate a good deed done by someone by the name of Carthalon at a time when Qart Hadasht was threatened by Agathocles, the Greek tyrant from Syracuse.
It is said that there is no superstition in the magistrature of China.
It is probable that none will remain in the magistrature of a few towns of Europe.
In 1861 he accepted the post of Arbiter of the Peace, a magistrature that had been introduced to supervise the carrying into life of the Emancipation Act.