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• a  of or relating to a magistrate
  official magisterial functions
• s  offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
  managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way
• s  used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
  she reigned in magisterial beauty

• Paul Drennan Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine Wood; of a heart attack; in .
• Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky.
• His girth is so magisterial that the inevitable Falstaff comparison seems inadequate.

• autocratic
• bossy
• dominating
• high-and-mighty
• peremptory
• distinguished
• grand
• imposing

News & Articles

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• Magisterial judge candidate loses recount bid
  A recount of ballots in a magisterial district judge race has not changed the outcome of the primary
  June 18, 2013 - The Uniontown Herald Standard
• Law catches up with law library bookkeeper
  Barbara Melnyk, a bookkeeper in Montgomery County's law library, was arrested Friday on theft and related charges. She is accused of purchasing nearly  $2,600 worth of text books for family members. The suspect was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Margaret Hunsicker, who set unsecured bail at $10,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled before Judge Hunsicker at 11 a.m. June 21. Montgomery ...
  June 14, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey
• Hearing delayed for Liberty care home drug theft suspects
  By Michael DiVittorio, McKeesport Daily News A preliminary hearing has been postponed again for three people accused of taking prescription drugs from patients at Liberty Manor Personal Care Home. Glassport Magisterial ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Mckeesport Daily News

Quotes

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• Paige Patterson in BP News
  They nevertheless paid the price to go against the culture of Rome and to go against the culture of even the Magisterial Reformers and say, 'We must obey the Holy Spirit of God,'Patterson said.
• Michael Howard in guardian.co.uk
  His biography of Salisbury is magisterial and his book on Halifax, which was written while he was practically still an undergraduate, remains the standard work,says Michael Howard, retired regius professor of modern history at Oxford University.
• Pope Paul VI in Catholic News Agency
  This,the Pope explains, "is not a question of purely individual morality: Humanae Vitae indicates the strong links between life ethics and social ethics, ushering in a new area of magisterial teaching that has gradually been articulated in a...