Word Meanings - MAGISTRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The office or dignity of a magistrate. Blackstone. 2. The collective body of magistrates.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MAGISTRACY)

• Jurisdiction
• Administration
• cognizance
• government
• control
• sway
• power
• legalization
• magistracy
• liability

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MAGISTRACY)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to MAGISTRACY)

• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• CONTROL
  contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
• LICENSE
  fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin 1. Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business,
• COGNIZANCE
  conaissance, LL. cognoscentia, fr. L. cognoscere to know. See 1. Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor. Bp. Hurd 2. Recollection; recognition. Who,
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• JURISDICTION
  The legal power, right, or authority of a particular court to hear and determine causes, to try criminals, or to execute justice; judicial authority over a cause or class of causes; as, certain suits or actions, or the cognizance of certain crimes,
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• BERATE
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• INCOGNIZANCE
  Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATION
  An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• PLIABILITY
  The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition. "Pliability of movement." Sir W. Scott.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."