magisterial
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(a) of or relating to a magistrate
- official magisterial functions
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(s) 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
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(s) 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