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adjective

magisterial

commanding great authority; masterly and dignified in manner

In a sentence

Six example sentences with magisterial, each labelled with its topic.

  • The retired justice's magisterial treatise on contract law is still the first book every clerk is told to read.

    Law

  • Gibbon's magisterial history of Rome's fall ran to six volumes and set the standard every later historian measured themselves against.

    History

  • The prime minister answered the heckler with a magisterial calm that made the interruption seem childish to the whole chamber.

    Politics

  • The conductor's magisterial reading of the symphony held the hall silent for a full minute after the last chord.

    Music

  • Her magisterial biography of the poet runs to nine hundred pages and settles arguments that lasted a century.

    Literature

  • The magisterial textbook on tides is still assigned sixty years on, since nobody has written a clearer account.

    Science

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