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An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

Same as Chronologist.

s of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

al and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]

it is proprly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts.

Enrolled; written; registered. Conscript fathers (Rom. Antiq.), the senators of ancient Rome. When certain new senators were first enrolled with the "fathers" the body was called Patres et Conscripti; afterward all were called Patres conscripti.

An enrolling or registering. The conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet.

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [More commonly written controller.]

r a signal number, when it refers to the signal number of an officer in the Annual Navy Register.

n place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-à-piston. (c) A certain organ stop or register.

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

ent in a country for traffic. Blount. (b) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. [Obs.] Cowell.

ne or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]

A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate.

ouragement. Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance. Ps. xxi. 6. This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury.

he privilege to be a county by itself, and to be governed by its own sheriffs and other magistrates, irrespective of the officers of the county in which it is situated; as London, York, Bristol, etc. [Eng.] Mozley & W. -- County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. -- County palatine, a county dist…

A treatise on crime or the criminal population. -- Crim`i*nol"o*gist (-j, n.