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magisterial

 
Adjective magisterial has 3 senses
  1. magisterial - of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"
  2. autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory - offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
    Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)
  3. distinguished, imposing, magisterial - used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
    Antonym: undignified (indirect, via dignified)
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