magisterial

• They could not attend a "gathering," which meant an assembly of more than one other person, and could not travel outside the magisterial area to which they were confined. —  IMEMC News
• That magisterial, three-volume history, begun in 1929 and completed in 1957, has been a touchstone ever since for anyone writing about early Chicago. —  The Chicago Blog
• Published in 1995, when the world's bewilderment was still fresh, the book met with an enthusiastic critical reception -- David Rieff lauded it as "magisterial"; Christopher Hitchens called it "beyond praise" -- and many experts consider it the most useful volume in what is now a very crowded library of Rwanda books. —  The Nation: Top Stories
• Martin Marty said of the work that it is "a series for which they must have coined words like 'magisterial'." —  The Chicago Blog
• The lash, Dr. Henderson was far from rejecting as an instrument of correction--"cheap and expeditious:" in short, his was a plan of slavery, and which conveyed semi-magisterial powers to the overseers, and gave them a profit on the labor they might exact Henderson had become sultanised by living in India: he was attached to the spirit of its government; the legal formalities, which delight an Englishman, seemed to him the degradation of rank, and a pernicious license to inferiors. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II

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