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Definition of Magistrate
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.

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Magistrate Quotations

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
Gouverneur Morris

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James Polk

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Magistrate Translations

magistrate in German is richterlicher Beamter
magistrate in Italian is magistrato
magistrate in Swedish is polisdomare


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