Definition of magistrate

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Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it..

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Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..
Magistratical :: Magistratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate..
Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..
Propretor :: Propretor (n.) A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Lacking ability for an appropriate function or office; as, weak eyes; a weak stomach; a weak magistrate; a weak regiment, or army..
Weaken :: Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
Demiurge :: Demiurge (n.) The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
Podesta :: Podesta (n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy..
Decemvir :: Decemvir (n.) One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome.
Apparitor :: Apparitor (n.) Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders..
Chair :: Chair (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself..
Censor :: Censor (n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct..
Mace :: Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority..
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.
Cadi :: Cadi (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village..
Antimagistrical :: Antimagistrical (a.) Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates.
Character :: Character (n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter..
Ayuntamiento :: Ayuntamiento (n.) In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen..
Hall :: Hall (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
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