Magistracy [noun]

Definition of Magistracy:

area of authority

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Sentence/Example of Magistracy:

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.

The next is, to preserve the magistracy and legal authorities in honor, respect, and force.

It is a republican magistracy, where each presents his peculiar physiognomy, and exercises his separate influence.

Francis de Humillos is considered fit for the magistracy because of his nearness in soling a shoe.

The transfer of the case to the Magistracy was felt as an overwhelming blow by Beethoven.

Dewes was dismissed from the magistracy, and Sir Charles Hotham did everything in his power to conciliate the diggers.