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magistracy
[ maj-uh-struh-see ]
noun
- the office or function of a magistrate.
- a body of magistrates.
- the district under a magistrate.
magistracy
/ ˈmædʒɪstrəˌtjʊə; ˈmædʒɪstrəsɪ /
noun
- the office or function of a magistrate
- magistrates collectively
- the district under the jurisdiction of a magistrate
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Word History and Origins
Origin of magistracy1
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Example Sentences
A few years later the presbytery went further than even the magistracy had already done.
I have acted boldly, in the open day, in the presence of the magistracy: there lias been nothing secret or concealed.
Of the nobility not one-tenth, of the magistracy not one-fifth, were favorable to the changes which she wished to introduce.
The law of 412 came in vain to require an interval of ten years before becoming again a candidate for the same magistracy.
But the esteem of his fellow-citizens would not have sufficed, in ordinary times, to have raised him to the first magistracy.
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