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n. A civil officer with power to administer and enforce law, as:

n. A local member of the judiciary having limited jurisdiction, especially in criminal cases.

n. A minor official, such as a justice of the peace, having administrative and limited judicial authority.

n. A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.

n. A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

n. Magistracy.

n. An administrator of the law; one who possesses jurisdiction or executive authority in matters of civil government; an executive or judicial officer holding the power of decision and disposal in regard to subjects within his cognizance: as, a king is the first magistrate of a monarchy; in the United States the President is often called the chief magistrate; the magistrates of a state or city; civil or judicial magistrates.

n. Specifically, a minor judicial officer; a justice of the peace, or a police justice; in Scotland, a provost or a bailie of a burgh: as, to be brought before the bar of the local magistrate.

n. In the New Testament, a Roman military governor or pretor.

n. a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)

"To say the _magistrate_ has this right, is using an inadequate word: it is the _society_ for which the magistrate is agent."

justice    jurist    judge   

committing magistrate    chief magistrate    glasgow magistrate    stipendiary magistrates    curule magistrate   

justice of the peace    stipendiary    stipendiary magistrate   

authority    duumvir    triumvir    decemvir    eponym    burgomaster    bencher    prefect    president    mayor   

governor    minister    bishop    ruler    commissioner    clergyman    citizen    statesman    sheriff    physician