Definition of 'magisterial'

Adjective

1. of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"
2. offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
      Synonyms: autocratic bossy dominating high-and-mighty peremptory
3. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
      Synonyms: distinguished grand imposing

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