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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.

or and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable. [Archaic] He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

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.

Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.