magistral

American  

[maj-uh-struhl] / ˈmædʒ ə strəl /

adjective

1. Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy.

2. Fortification. principal; main.

3. magisterial.

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noun

1. magistral line.

magistral British  

/ məˈdʒɪstrəl, ˌmædʒɪˈstrælɪtɪ, ˌmædʒɪˈstrætɪkəlɪ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a master

2. obsolete pharmacol made up according to a special prescription Compare officinal

3. fortifications determining the location of other fortifications

   the magistral line

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noun

1. a fortification in a determining position

Other Word Forms

• magistrality noun
• magistrally adverb
• magistratically adverb

Etymology

Origin of magistral

1565–75; < Latin magistrālis of a master, equivalent to magist ( e ) r master + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

In itself it can hardly be termed a magistral work, inasmuch as all the theories enunciated in it are, at least, twenty years old, and appear to us to-day quite worn out and decrepit.

From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous

Sonata No. 7, Opus 64; Sonata No. 8, Opus 66; Sonata No. 9, Opus 68; and Sonata No. 10, Opus 70; are perhaps the most magistral.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

Mr. S. Lane-Poole has contracted to "do" a life of Lord Stratford, and, ergo, he condemns me in magistral tone and a style of uncalled-for impertinence, to act as his "advt."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Compounding that assay and calcination with magistral, nothing was obtained.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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