Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Authoritatively; magisterially.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a magistral manner.

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  • adverb In a magistral manner; authoritatively; dogmatically.

Etymologies

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magistral +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Mysterious too was the great oval patch of dark water to the west; and also a broad blue lane traced on the dull silver of the waters in a parabolic curve described magistrally by an invisible finger for

    The Rover 1923

  • Junius may have to explain in invective what Burke magistrally demonstrated in terms of political philosophy.

    Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

  • "The power of imagination to remake the world …." this is the way JGB magistrally showed … let's step inside to let him live.

    Comments for Ballardian Carlos Figueiredo 2009

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