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Provost :: Provost (n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches..

Executive :: Executive (n.) An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body..

Antimagistrical :: Antimagistrical (a.) Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates.

Consul :: Consul (n.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul..

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

Fasces :: Fasces (pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority..

Unmagistrate :: Unmagistrate (v. t.) To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate.

Stadtholderate :: Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province..

Magisterial :: Magisterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic..

Corregidor :: Corregidor (n.) The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

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.

Governor :: Governor (n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania..

Landamman :: Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

Hieromnemon :: Hieromnemon (n.) A magistrate who had charge of religious matters, as at Byzantium..

Magistracy :: Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.

Duumvir :: Duumvir (n.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

Sheik :: Sheik (n.) The head of an Arab family, or of a clan or a tribe; also, the chief magistrate of an Arab village. The name is also applied to Mohammedan ecclesiastics of a high grade..

Podesta :: Podesta (n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.

Plebiscitum :: Plebiscitum (n.) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate..

Gerontes :: Gerontes (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority..

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