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Definition of Magistrates
1. magistrate [n] - See also: magistrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magistrates
Literary usage of Magistrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"ARBITRARY POWER OF magistrates UNDER THE RULE OF THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY For what
... In two different kinds of government the magistrates " exercise a ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"[338] OF SUBORDINATE magistrates. § 461. Principal subordinate magistrates.—In
a former chapter of these Commentaries" we distinguished magistrates into two ..."
3. Publications (1848)
"... magistrates were bound to judge in causes spiritual or Christian, as to suppress
heresies, defend the faith of Jesus, although that Caesar, Herod, ..."
4. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649 by John Winthrop, James Kendall Hosmer (1908)
"Whether the magistrates are, by patent and election of the people, ... The magistrates
and deputies agreed upon an hour, but the deputies came not all, ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"V For what reason the arbitrary power of magistrates is greater in absolute ...
IN two different kinds of government the magistrates exercise a con. ..."
6. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"that the magistrates should ' in tenderness and love admonish one another, without
reserving any secret grudge,' and that the magistrates should henceforth ..."
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