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Asserting a thing positively and authoritatively; positive; magisterial; hence, arrogantly authoritative; overbearing. Critics write in a positive, dogmatic way. Spectator. [They] are as assertive and dogmatical as if they were omniscient. Glanvill. Dogmatic theology. Same as Dogmatics.

In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance. The pride of dogmatizing schools. Blackmore.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher. Hammond.

A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridæ. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.

To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman.

A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.

A druggist. [Obs.] Boule.

One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.

dent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

An elegist. [Obs.]

To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.

Bestowing praise; praising; eulogistic; laudatory; as, an encomiastic address or discourse. -- En*co`mi*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and…

One who enrolls or registers.

The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.