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ˈmædʒ əˌstreɪt, -strɪtmag·is·trate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. magistratenoun

    a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)

Wiktionary

  1. magistratenoun

    A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. MAGISTRATEnoun

    A man publickly invested with authority; a governour; an executor of the laws.

    Etymology: magistratus, Latin.

    They chuse their magistrate!
    And such a one as he, who puts his shall,
    His popular shall, against a graver bench
    Than ever frown’d in Greece. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    I treat here of those legal punishments which magistrates inflict upon their disobedient subjects. Decay of Piety.

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  1. magistrate

    A magistrate is a civil officer or judge who administers the law, typically in a town, district or county, dealing with minor offenses, pre-trial hearings, and other legal matters that don't require a jury. They are sometimes referred to as justices of the peace and their power and jurisdiction vary depending on the particular laws of the region in which they work.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Magistratenoun

    a person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it

  2. Etymology: [L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master.]

Wikidata

  1. Magistrate

    A magistrate is an officer of the state; in modern usage the term usually refers to a judge. This was not always the case; in ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest government officers and possessed both judicial and executive powers. Today, in common law systems, a magistrate has limited law enforcement and administration authority. In civil law systems, a magistrate might be a judge in a superior court; the magistrates' court might have jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases. A related, but not always equivalent, term is chief magistrate, which historically can denote a political and administrative officer.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Magistrate

    maj′is-trāt, n. a person entrusted with the power of putting the laws in force: a justice of the peace.—n. Mag′istracy, the office or dignity of a magistrate: the body of magistrates.—adj. Mag′istral, magisterial: specially prescribed or made up, as a medicine: effectual.—n. (fort.) the guiding line determining the other positions: a special preacher in Spanish cathedrals, &c.—n. Magistrand′, an arts student ready to proceed to graduation, at Aberdeen.—adj. Magistrat′ic. [O. Fr.,—L. magistratus, magister.]

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'magistrate' in Nouns Frequency: #1441

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of magistrate in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of magistrate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of magistrate in a Sentence

  1. James Meyers:

    They’re not focusing on the crimes I think they should be focusing on, that hour the cops sat out there with me, the hour and a half I was down in the magistrate's office could have been spent somewhere else.

  2. Geoffrey Harrison:

    KBR believes that it is wrong for the plaintiffs' lawyers to try to avoid paying the costs of court and, instead, trying to shift the cost to the taxpayers, in his latest ruling, the magistrate judge got it wrong again. This is yet another in a long series of factually and legally incorrect rulings from this judge.

  3. Imran Khan:

    Listen Director Inspector General( of police), we're not going to let you go, we're going to file a case against you. And madam magistrate you should also get ready, we will take action against you.

  4. Jim Hood:

    The magistrate started pulling the bull by the horns, that lady worked hours and hours and hours, and if anybody deserves the credit in this thing, it's Judge Sally Shushan.

  5. Grover Cleveland:

    Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

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