Magistrate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAGISTRATE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an official entrusted with administration of the laws
• 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.
• A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
• a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an official entrusted with administration of the laws; as; a principal official exercising governmental powers over a major political unit (as a nation); a local official exercising administrative and often judicial functions; a local judiciary official having limited original jurisdiction especially in criminal cases

Words related to MAGISTRATE

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Words that contain MAGISTRATE

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How to use MAGISTRATE in a sentence

• Pascal resolved to begin with an old magistrate whom he had treated for an affection of the liver.
• The keys are to be left, one in possession of the chief magistrate, another in the hands of the governor of the respective town, and the remaining one with the parish-curate.
• The province of Cavite is alone exempt from this rule, and the collection of tribute is there confided to a police magistrate.
• His apprentices conduct themselves very satisfactorily, and he had not carried a half dozen complaints to the special magistrate since 1831.
• The house contains the office and private room of the magistrate, and the guard-room, below, and chambers for the police men above.
• Hopper returned to the sloop with a constable and brought the two men before a magistrate to answer to this charge.
• The magistrate decided that his evidence was not admissible, on the ground that he was interested.
• The magistrate will willingly control it as far as lies in his province, but unless directly instructed by the Legislature he cannot go farther.
• She looked straight at the magistrate, not trusting herself to glance either side.
• The district Magistrate of the city of Chiang-chiu issued a proclamation informing the people of the danger of poison, especially against poison in their wells.
• But when he came alongside our ship neither did the father dare ascend nor the son descend, as the magistrate of health had not yet been on board.
• The heroic magistrate, having taken another tumbler, began to get drowsy, and with some assistance, was prevailed on to go to bed, where he almost immediately fell asleep.
• It was not a cold profession of allegiance to the first magistrate, but a partial, animated attachment to a favourite prince, the native of their country.
• Dismayed by the magistrate, I owned, wretched woman that I was, that I had received the watch from Rann, and in two hours Jack also was under lock and key.
• All greatly blame that magistrate, because Don Sebastian de Corcuera found an aid and support in him.
• A magistrate was at length found who would act, but it was then too late, as drink had rendered the mob insensible to danger.
• He was often the patriarch of his parish, its ruler, its doctor, its lawyer, its magistrate, as well as its teacher, before whom vice trembled and rebellion dared not show itself.
• Banker, who had recovered his breath and had collected his ideas, sent for the police magistrate and made a confession.
• Lane, of Belfast, Victoria, a police magistrate and warden, whose observations, as I am assured, are highly trustworthy.
• After an argument the police magistrate, an excitable man, made as though to arrest him.
• They must have had reason so to think, judging from the hard swearing they did, before the committing magistrate.
• I wish to make this statement before a magistrate, because I understand that Mr.

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