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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Apparitor :: Apparitor (n.) Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders..
Praetexta :: Praetexta (n.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests..
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..
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..
Gonfalonier :: Gonfalonier (n.) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediaeveal Italy.
Consul :: Consul (n.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.
Polemarch :: Polemarch (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer..
Counselor :: Counselor (n.) A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [See under Consilor..
Pretorian :: Pretorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority..
Exercisible :: Exercisible (a.) Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction..
Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office..
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power..
Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years..
Affirm :: Affirm (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation..
Dative :: Dative (a.) Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law..
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.
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..
Magistracy :: Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity 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..
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