All 13 Uses of

magistrate

in

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The bailiff of the courts was a sort of amphibious magistrate, a sort of bat of the judicial order, related to both the rat and the bird, the judge and the soldier.†
Chpt 1.1.4

magistrate = judicial official

he!" replied the fat magistrate, half aroused, "it's tolerably jolly, that's a fact."†
Chpt 1.1.5 *

CHAPTER I — AN IMPARTIAL GLANCE AT THE ANCIENT MAGISTRACY†
Chpt 1.6.1

magistracy = judiciary

Moreover, it was the day after a festival, a tiresome day for every one, and above all for the magistrate who is charged with sweeping away all the filth, properly and figuratively speaking, which a festival day produces in Paris.†
Chpt 1.6.1

magistrate = judicial official

In neither case did the honor of the magistracy sustain any injury; for it is far better that a judge should be reputed imbecile or profound than deaf.†
Chpt 1.6.1

magistracy = judiciary

So this is as much as to say, perverse and thieving knave that you are, that you permit yourself to be lacking in respect towards the Auditor of the Châtelet, to the magistrate committed to the popular police of Paris, charged with searching out crimes, delinquencies, and evil conduct; with controlling all trades, and interdicting monopoly; with maintaining the pavements; with debarring the hucksters of chickens, poultry, and water-fowl; of superintending the measuring of fagots and other sorts of wood; of purging the city of mud, and the air of contagious maladies; in a word, with attending continually to public affairs, without wages or hope of salary!†
Chpt 1.6.1

magistrate = judicial official

When Jehan saw that it was only this, that is to say, no doubt a physician or a magistrate, and that this man had a nose very far from his mouth, a sign of stupidity, he nestled down in his hole, in despair at being obliged to pass an indefinite time in such an uncomfortable attitude, and in such bad company.†
Chpt 2.7.5

The anterior portion of the ball was occupied by the crowd; on the right and left were magistrates and tables; at the end, upon a platform, a number of judges, whose rear rank sank into the shadows, sinister and motionless faces.†
Chpt 2.8.1

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court

"And those sheep behind him?" continued Gringoire, who as we have seen, did not love the magistracy, which arose, possibly, from the grudge which he cherished against the Palais de Justice since his dramatic misadventure.†
Chpt 2.8.1

magistracy = judiciary

"Come!" said our philosopher, "we are going to see all these magistrates devour human flesh.†
Chpt 2.8.1

magistrates = judges or civil authorities who conduct a court

The magistrate who had reminded Gringoire of a crocodile rose,— "Silence!" said he.†
Chpt 2.8.1

magistrate = judicial official

A counsellor having remarked that the gentlemen were fatigued, and that it would be a long time to wait until the torture was at an end, the president replied that a magistrate must know how to sacrifice himself to his duty.†
Chpt 2.8.1

She raised her large, staring eyes to the magistrate, and replied, as though mechanically, without convulsion or agitation,— "Yes."†
Chpt 2.8.2

Definition:

a judge or judicial official

The 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