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comparative more magistral, superlative most magistral
Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative. quotations examples
[Y]ou live on a magistral hill in a venerable mansion, not to speak of governmental rations.
1928, Hart Crane, letter, 16 September
Toby opened the game with a magistral flourish.
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 889
(obsolete, pharmacology) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.
(pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
countable and uncountable, plural magistrals
(pharmacology) A sovereign medicine or remedy.
(countable) A magistral line. examples
(chiefly uncountable) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America. examples