Crossword-Solution: MAGISTRATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Magistrate | n. | A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MAGISTRATE | anagram | GAMEARTIST |
We have 22 clues for the answer “MAGISTRATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Police court figure | 1 answer |
| Minor judge | 1 answer |
| Legal administrator | 1 answer |
| Justice of the peace | 1 answer |
| DOGE | 1 answer |
| CIVIL officer | 1 answer |
| BAILIE | 2 answers |
| AEDILE | 3 answers |
| JUDICIAL officer | 3 answers |
| reeve | 6 answers |
| Public official | 6 answers |
| CONSUL ___ | 10 answers |
| Bailiff | 14 answers |
| Beak | 43 answers |
| magistrature | 44 answers |
| Justice | 46 answers |
| governor | 47 answers |
| High Command | 54 answers |
| Governing body | 60 answers |
| CLEVER person | 62 answers |
| COURT ___ | 68 answers |
| Judge | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MAGISTRATE (5)
The chief magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the states.
Sometimes the red infamy upon her breast would give a sympathetic throb, as she passed near a venerable minister or magistrate, the model of piety and justice, to whom that age of antique reverence looked up, as to a mortal man in fellowship with angels.
Didn’t you, Johnny?” It is easy to see, by the papers, that the magistrate and the constables and the jailer treasure up the assassin’s daily remarks and doings as precious things, and as wallowing this week in seas of blissful distinction.
John Hathorne (as the name was then spelled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magistrate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the famous trials for witchcraft held there.
The worthy magistrate was an old friend of my lady’s, and the Indians were “committed” for a week, as soon as the court opened that morning.
Quotes with MAGISTRATE (3)
A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. There is a familiar version of this story, but a friend of mine - a Speaker for the Dead - has told me of two other Rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I'm going to tell you. The Rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears a…
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws come to govern a commonwealth, the sword is certainly wielded in vain, for it represents simply the brute force of some men’s will against the will of other men.
The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1981–2021).