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own; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic, a.

One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

ority, and the like; claim to be believed or obeyed; as, an historian of no authority; a magistrate of great authority.

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

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 Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

A magistrate or policeman. [Slang, Eng.]

A magistrate of a borough.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

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.

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

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

ine 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.