of, pertaining to, or befitting a master; authoritative; weighty; of importance or consequence: a magisterial pronouncement by the director of the board.
2.
imperious; domineering: a magisterial tone of command.
3.
of or befitting a magistrate or the office of a magistrate: The judge spoke with magisterial gravity.
4.
of the rank of a magistrate: magisterial standing.
Origin: 1625–35; < Late Latinmagisteriālis; see magisterium, -al1
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
1630s, from L. magisterialis "of or pertaining to the office of magistrate, director, or teacher," from magisterius "having authority of a magistrate," from magister "chief, director" (see master).