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To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; to bring to the form of an empire. Fuller.

In an imperial manner.

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold.

Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill.

With reference to industry.

Within the territory of a state. Story.

Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth. Infusorial earth (Geol.), a deposit of fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of the shells of the microscopic plants called diatoms. It is used in polishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite.…

ertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. "Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse." F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume.…

In an inquisitorial manner.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, perching birds.

Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection. [R.]

Intercessory.

Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

Within the territory or a territory.

Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.

See Calendarial.

Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.

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 on any man. Sir T. Browne. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fa…

Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [R.] Fuller.