All 5 Uses of
magistrate
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Then Nasty Roche had asked: —Is he a magistrate?†
Chpt 1
- Their fathers were magistrates, the fellows said.†
Chpt 1 *
- His father was a marshal now: higher than a magistrate.†
Chpt 1
- His father, who kept the racehorses, must be a magistrate too like Saurin's father and Nasty Roche's father.†
Chpt 1
- He thought of his own father, of how he sang songs while his mother played and of how he always gave him a shilling when he asked for sixpence and he felt sorry for him that he was not a magistrate like the other boys' fathers.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(magistrate) a judge or judicial officialThe exact meaning of magistrate varies widely depending upon the context. For example:
- in the U.S. federal court: assists district court judges by handling minor offenses or administrative tasks such as preliminary hearings (often referred to as a magistrate judge rather than just a magistrate)
- in some U.S. states: a judge in the state court
- in France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and other civil law countries: a sitting magistrate is a judge and a standing magistrate is a prosecutor
- in England: may be a volunteer without formal legal training who performs a judicial role with regard to minor matters
- in ancient Rome: a powerful officer with both judicial and executive power