Magistral () Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

Magistral () Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.

Magistral () Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

Magistral () A sovereign medicine or remedy.

Magistral () A magistral line.

Magistral () Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

Magistrality () Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

Magistrally () In a magistral manner.

Magistrate () A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

Magistratic () Alt. of Magistratical

Magistratical () Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.

Magistrature () Magistracy.

Magma () Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

Magma () A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

Magma () A salve or confection of thick consistency.

Magma () The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

Magma () The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

Magma () The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

Magna Charta () Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.

Magnality () A great act or event; a great attainment.

Magnanimity () The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

Magnanimous () Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

Magnanimous () Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

Magnanimously () In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.

Magnase black () A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.

Magnate () A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.

Magnate () One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.

Magnes () Magnet.

Magnesia () A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Magnesian () Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.

Magnesic () Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

Magnesite () Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

Magnesium () A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.

Magnet () The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.

Magnet () A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

Magnetic () Alt. of Magnetical

Magnetical () Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.

Magnetical () Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

Magnetical () Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.

Magnetical () Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.

Magnetical () Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism.

Magnetic () A magnet.

Magnetic () Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

Magnetically () By or as by, magnetism.

Magneticalness () Quality of being magnetic.

Magnetician () One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.

Maneticness () Magneticalness.

Magnetics () The science of magnetism.

Magnetiferous () Producing or conducting magnetism.

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