Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power.
Used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person.
1 He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.
2 Her whole bearing consisted of volleys of abuse, closed by magisterial interrogations.
3 Ricky supposed that he had to envy that too, the magisterial appearance.
4 And didn't SHE put me down with one of her magisterial sentences?
5 His pals apparently still regard that brazen mantra as evidence of magisterial leadership.
6 The light generated by this magisterial study extends far beyond Kerry.
7 Ecclesiastical power is either supreme and magisterial ; or subordinate and ministerial.
8 A magisterial inquiry on the Egrant charges is still under way.
9 It's still worth reading, just slightly less magisterial than it might have been.
10 Heller took Rushdie to task for what she called his magisterial amour propre.
11 But this ought not to detract from the magisterial nature of this study.
12 In fact, I and my companions were receiving a magisterial dressing-down.
13 The commons were not overawed by the magisterial air of the king's speech.
14 That is remarkable omission for a book of such magisterial sweep.
15 There was something inexorable, almost magisterial , in what he was witnessing.
16 At the table head, looking very magisterial indeed, sat Colonel Marden.
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