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单词 magistrate
释义

magistrate

/ˈmadʒɪstrət / /ˈmadʒɪstreɪt/
noun
A civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.It is clear that the magistrates heard a great deal of factual evidence and had regard to that....
  • In sentencing the magistrates said the offences were so serious that custody was the only option.
  • Local residents should serve on juries in the upper courts and as lay magistrates in the lower courts.

Derivatives

magistrateship

noun

magistrature

/ˈmadʒɪstrətʃə / noun ...
  • Born in a family of magistrates, he was educated at a Jesuit school, studied the law, and practised in the Rouen magistrature until 1630.
  • This organisation of competition for places on the Supreme Court of Justice is done in order to safeguard equality of expectations among candidates from each of the magistratures.
  • The old system of public administration and magistratures came under attack and was abolished by 1786.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin magistratus 'administrator', from magister 'master'.

  • Magistrate is from Latin magistratus ‘administrator’, from magister ‘master’. This also gives us master (Old English), its weakened form mister (mid 16th century), and miss.

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