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magistracy|ˈmædʒɪstrəsɪ|
Also 6–7 magistracie, 7 magistratie.
[f. magistrate: see -acy.]
†1. The existence of magistrates; the condition of being a magistrate. Obs.
c1585R. Browne Answ. Cartwright 3 As for the Maiestracie of Byshops there is no lawe to warrant it. 1587T. Norton's Calvin's Inst. iv. xx. 496 marg., Magistracy [is] not taken away by the libertie which is promised in the gospell. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 12 We..in magistracie and subjection, must shew what price we set on Gods mercie. 1644A. Burgesse Magistr. Commiss. fr. Heaven 2 He was convinced the state of Magistracie he lived in to be pleasing to God. 1693Dryden Persius (1697) 455 Young Noblemen..were too forward in aspiring to Publick Magistracy.
2. The office of the magistrate; magisterial power or dignity; occas. conduct in office as a magistrate. Now rare.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 169 The Magistracie (that I may henceforwarde vse this worde of the magistrates power and place) is an office, and an action in executing the same. 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 131 Their..open Contempt of Magistracy and the Laws. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ii. 142 In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man. 1782Gentl. Mag. LII. 597 [They] were both committed to New Bridewell..for contempt of magistracy. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iii. 112 A principal portion of the..spiritual magistracy had been usurped. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 277 Literature and science were, in the academical system of England,..armed with magistracy. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 169 All magistrates..must give an account of their magistracy.
3. The office, dignity, and functions of some magistrate (e.g. a consul, justice of the peace, etc.) contextually indicated.
1600Holland Livy x. xv. 361 To plucke the Consulship out of the mire..and to restore the auncient majestie..to the Magistracie. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. i. 17, I had no other end in aspiring to the Magistracy, than that one, of doing good to all. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 65 The Candidates, who put in for any Magistracy. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 18 A popular choice is necessary to the legal existence of the sovereign magistracy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 74 The public regarded them merely as eminent citizens invested with temporary magistracies. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 136 A town over which he exercised the powers of the highest civil magistracy.
4. Magistrates collectively; the whole body of magistrates.
1601Dent Pathw. Heaven, Morn. Prayer (1631) Dd 5 b, We pray thee blesse Magistracie, Ministerie, & Commonalty. 1651Biggs New Disp. Pref. 9 So grave a Magistracie sitting in Parliament. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 276 A just Valuation, which must be confirmed by a Sentence of the nearest Magistracy or other competent Tribunal. 1758J. Blake Plan Mar. Syst. 52 Our sea-ports, to the shame of magistracy, abound with lewd..women. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames viii. 265 Checks established under the control of a vigilant magistracy. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. x. II. 555 The peers repaired to Guildhall, and were received there with all honor by the magistracy of the city. 1883Fortn. Rev. May 700 Guardians have come to be regarded with almost as much respect as the magistracy.
5. a. A district under the government of a magistrate. b. A magistrate's residence or station.
1888Athenæum 7 Apr. 439/1 Dividing the country into magistracies, and instituting local courts and officials. 1895Scully Kafir Stories 189 The Kwesa clan of Pondos dwelt..within thirty miles of the Magistracy. |