3. (Metal.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of
silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
Mag`is*tral"i*ty (?), n.; pl. -ties (&?;). Magisterialness; arbitrary
dogmatism. Bacon.
Mag"is*tral*ly (?), adv. In a magistral manner. Abp. Bramhall.
Mag"is*trate (?), n. [L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F.
magistrat. See Master.] A person clothed with power as a public civil
officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government,
or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of
Com. Prayer.
Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power
of the state resides; others are subordinate.
Blackstone.
{ Mag`is*trat"ic (?), Mag`is*trat"ic*al (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or
proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
Jer. Taylor.