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Another word for magistrate

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Noun

  1. A public official who decides cases brought before a court of law in order to administer justice

    See also:

    law

    decide

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Another word for magistrate

Noun
  1. See also:

    judge

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He was mayor 1903; and was made a magistrate for the county of Durham.

  • They were convened by the magistrate, who presided as in the Roman senate.

  • It was impossible, however, for a Roman magistrate of the time to rid himself of the idea that all forms of religion must do homage to the civil power.

  • The tenure of the presidential office was for two years, and at every alternate election Guzman Blanco was declared to be duly and legally chosen to fill the post of chief magistrate of the republic. In 1889 there was an open revolt against the dictatorial system so long in vogue; and President Rojas Paul, Blanco's locum tenens, was forced to flee the country and take refuge in the Dutch colony of Curacoa.

  • The praefect had all the powers of the magistrate whose deputy he was, except that he could not nominate a deputy to himself.

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