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magisterial
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  • [He sits down magisterially] I come about a very serious matter, Governor†  (source)
  • The General waved me into my seat with a magisterial sweep of his long slender arm.†  (source)
  • His magisterial persona must come to an end in ashes.†  (source)
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  • Harrison looked as merry as you please, behind his magisterial solemnity.†  (source)
  • You can't do things like that right in front of the Minister for Magic, you — you = His voice faltered as Dumbledore surveyed him magisterially over his half-moon spectacles.†  (source)
  • He loved this place, a magisterial old house in the Garden District.†  (source)
  • He wanted someone to share the blame, and frowned at Mrs. Moore rather magisterially.†  (source)
  • I drink a great deal of beer, to make myself magisterial.†  (source)
  • A magnificent figure he cut too, pausing for a moment (as the sound of the half hour died away) to look critically, magisterially, at socks and shoes;†  (source)
  • There was no magisterial district in all of South Africa where whites constituted a majority of residents.†  (source)
  • "Mary would not be happy without doing her duty," said Mrs. Garth, magisterially, conscious of having done her own.†  (source)
  • When he met Florentino Ariza, the first thing he did, with a certain magisterial delight, was to initiate him into the secrets of his paradise.†  (source)
  • Grower said magisterially to one of these in a fustian jacket, who smoked a short pipe and wore straps round his knees.†  (source)
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