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One who is skilled in lithology.

One versed in liturgiology.

One who favors or adheres strictly to a liturgy. Milton.

Sexagesimal, or made on the scale of 60; as, logistic, or sexagesimal, arithmetic. Logistic, or Proportional, logarithms, certain logarithmic numbers used to shorten the calculation of the fourth term of a proportion of which one of the terms is a given constant quantity, commonly one hour, while the other terms are ex…

A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.

Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. When magisterial duties from his home Her father called. Glover. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions o…

Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [R.] Fuller.

In a magisterial manner.

The quality or state of being magisterial.

A magisterial injunction. [R.] Brougham.

The office or dignity of a magistrate. Blackstone.

Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. Bacon.

In a magistral manner. Abp. Bramhall.

invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone.

Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate. Jer. Taylor.

Magistracy. [Obs.]

One versed in the science of malacology.

One versed in mammalogy.