adjective
- Of or relating to a magistrate.
- usage: "official magisterial functions"
- Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
- usage: "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
- synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory
- Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person.
- usage: "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
- synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing
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