MAGISTERY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

2.
n.

A magisterial injunction. [R.] Brougham.

3.
n.

A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.