magisteriumn.

1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Fii These seuerall works and operations, whereby Regeneration, Tyncturs, Arcana, Magisteria, Quintumesse, and Elixirs be had and gotten.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 30 Hee is a Pythagorean, and a close fellow of his tongue, and pen, that hath the right magisterium indeede.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iv. sig. C4 This is the day, I am to perfect for him The Magisterium, our great worke, the Stone. View more context for this quotation

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. ii. 39 Which without doubt hath a villanous contagium upon the grand magisterium of the Stone.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 181 Between whiles let her sup a new-laid-Egg, thickned a little with Magisterium of Pearl, or red Coral.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. xiii. 289 He..talks of the magisterium—of sympathies and antipathies..of the cabala..and all the trumpery with which the Rosycrucians cheated a darker age.

1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 190 Was the Magisterium to blame or those that sought it among false principles?

1859 J. H. Newman in Rambler 1 227 Among the Media Traditionis, he [sc. Perrone] enumerates the magisterium of the Church, the Acts of the Martyrs, [etc.].]

1866 Dublin Rev. Apr. 422 Roman Catholics, throughout the world, are instructed in certain doctrines; are exhorted to certain practices; are encouraged and trained in certain tempers and dispositions. The Church's office in providing for this is called her ‘magisterium’.

1899 Dublin Rev. Apr. 262 Opposed to the ordinary teaching magisterium of the Catholic Church.

1949 New Life July–Aug. 157 Here it would be necessary to bring in the whole spiritual tradition of the Church, as it is taught by the Magisterium and mystical writers.

1970 J. Moltmann in In Search Theol. of Devel. (Sodepax) 94 Is it in and through the Church, the magisterium, and the sacraments?

1986 Catholic Herald 13 June 3/7 We should also be grateful for the authoritative coolness with which the Anglican episcopal magisterium..has..summed up the issues in such a pastorally positive way.