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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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