*agist*

n. [ LL. ] See Agister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. agistement. See Agist. ] (Law) (a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Anglo-Norman agistour. ] (Law) (a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + magistrical for magistratical. ] Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apanagiste. ] A prince to whom an appanage has been granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Areopagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, milk + &unr_; to eat: cf. &unr_; to live on milk. ] One who eats, or subsists on, milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who eats horseflesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ichthyophagous. ] One who eats, or subsists on, fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Master. ] Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. magisterius magisterial. See Master. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

When magisterial duties from his home
Her father called. Glover. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant. -- Magisterial, Dogmatical, Arrogant. One who is magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his pupils; one who is dogmatical lays down his positions in a tone of authority or dictation; one who is arrogant insults others by an undue assumption of superiority. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a magisterial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being magisterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. magisterium the office of a chief, president, director, tutor. See Magistrate. ] 1. Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A magisterial injunction. [ R. ] Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Magistracies [ From Magistrate. ] 1. The office or dignity of a magistrate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The collective body of magistrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. magistralis: cf. F. magistral. See Magistrate. ] 1. Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. “Some magistral opiate.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pharmacy) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, by which the form of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Med.) A sovereign medicine or remedy. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A magistral line. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a magistral manner. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F. magistrat. See Master. ] A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. “All Christian rulers and magistrates.” Book of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. magistrature. ] Magistracy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices massage; a masseur or masseuse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. 'o`streon an oyster + fagei^n to eat. ] One who feeds on oysters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pantophagous. ] A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; of or for sealing, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a seal. ] The science of seals, their history, age, distinctions, etc., esp. as verifying the age and genuiness of documents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who has certain opinions or desires about the political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist. Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]