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Pretor :: Pretor (n.) Hence, a mayor or magistrate..

Dogmatize :: Dogmatize (v. i.) To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

Magistratic :: Magistratic (a.) Alt. of Magistratica.

Magistracy :: Magistracy (n.) The collective body of magistrates.

Pasturer :: Pasturer (n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..

Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

Pantophagist :: Pantophagist (n.) A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.

Magistracies :: Magistracies (pl. ) of Magistrac.

Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Agist :: Agist (v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same..

Recognizance :: Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal..

Aedile :: Aedile (n.) A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer..

Worthless :: Worthless (a.) Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate..

Ayuntamiento :: Ayuntamiento (n.) In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen..

Curule :: Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official..

Authority :: Authority (n.) The power derived from opinion, respect, or esteem; influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority..

Pretor :: Pretor (n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

Ephor :: Ephor (n.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.

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