magistracy
noun
the office or function of a magistrate.
magistrature
-
a variation of
magistracy.
Example Sentences
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To some extent that’s also true of the Camorra and ’Ndrangheta, where the magistrature has also enjoyed some success.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2012
Today, the underpaid magistrature has become the refuge of law graduates who fear failure as lawyers, and the juge d'instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder.
From Time Magazine Archive
The expression was new to me, and I imagined the good priest to mean, that without the magistrature, respect for the laws might as well be 'up the chimney.'
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
Giving to this one rightly what that one would hold wrongfully in magistrature not in the abstract, and is only a part of its office.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
It was that which ensured the obedience of the enlightened and conscientious men who had great influence over the army and the magistrature.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies
