magistracy
noun
the office or function of a magistrate.
magistracies
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pluralof magistracy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But for those afterwards organized no new magistracies were added, and the practice was established of appointing as governor an ex-consul or ex-praetor with the title of pro-consul or pro-praetor.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The inferior magistracies, except in populous places, are in the hands of private persons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
He was granted the right to appoint to both Roman and provincial magistracies, until in 44 B. C. he had the authority to nominate half the officials annually; and in reality appointed all.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
At the beginning of his principate he transferred from the Assembly to the Senate the right of the election to the magistracies, thus relieving the senators from the expense and annoyance of canvassing the populace.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
In the lists of those who successively fill the great curule magistracies, we find almost exclusively the names of members of the old patrician or of the more recent plebeian nobility.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
