All 27 Uses
magistrate
in
The Pioneers, by Cooper
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- "I say, Squire Doolittle," continued the attorney, raising his voice, "you are a magistrate, and know what is law and what is not law.†
Chpt 13magistrate = judicial official
- "Armed with the dignity of the law, Mr. Bumppo," returned the Judge, gravely, "a vigilant magistrate can prevent much of the evil that has hitherto prevailed, and which is already rendering the game scarce.†
Chpt 14
- "H-e-m!" ejacuated the magistrate; "and where is the game?†
Chpt 28
- Come, you are a magistrate, I wish you'd make me out an order for the bounty.†
Chpt 28
- there's but one sort of Bible that's good in law," returned the magistrate, "and your'n will do as well as another's.†
Chpt 28
- Natty turned his simple features on the cunning magistrate with another of his laughs, as he said: "And what should I be doing with scholars' tools?†
Chpt 28
- "And let me tell you, Mr. Bumppo," said Hiram, retreating, however, with a quick step, "that I know you've broke the law, and that I'm a magistrate, and will make you feel it too, before you are a day older."†
Chpt 28
- Then he is a magistrate, and might shame many a man, in his distribution of justice, who has had better opportunities.†
Chpt 29 *
- "There's the counterfeiters," returned the magistrate, "as they were caught in the act, I think it likely that they'll be indicted, in which case it's probable they'll be tried."†
Chpt 30
- Then issue the warrant thyself; thou art a magistrate, Mr. Doolittle; why trouble me with the matter?†
Chpt 30
- Why, it's as easy, miss, to pull a rifle trigger on a magistrate as on a painter.†
Chpt 30
- It was, however, Saturday, and the sun was already turning the shadows of the pines toward the east; on the morrow the conscientious magistrate could not engage in such an expedition at the peril of his soul and long before Monday, the venison, and all vestiges of the death of the deer, might be secreted or destroyed.†
Chpt 30
- Jotham, who was associated in the whole business, and who had left the mountain in consequence of a summons from his coadjutor, but who failed, equally with Hiram, in the unfortunate particular of nerve, was directed to summon the wood-chopper to the dwelling of the magistrate.†
Chpt 30
- "Well, if you can get in peaceably, so much the better," said the magistrate.†
Chpt 30
- But no magistrate was to be seen!†
Chpt 30
- Assaulting a magistrate in the execution of his duty, and menacing a constable with firearms at the same time, is a pretty serious affair, and is punishable with both fine and imprisonment.†
Chpt 31
- "I have required your assistance, my friends," he cried, in a low voice, "in order to arrest Nathaniel Bumppo, commonly called the Leather-Stocking He has assaulted a magistrate, and resisted the execution of a search-war rant, by threatening the life of a constable with his rifle.†
Chpt 32
- "feeling it my bounden duty as a magistrate," and "seeing that the constable was back'ard in the business."†
Chpt 33
- All this was confirmed by Jotham, who was observed to adhere closely to the story of the magistrate.†
Chpt 33
- The magistrate passed by the end where Benjamin was seated, and posted himself, at a safe distance from the steward, in front of the LeatherStocking.†
Chpt 34
- Benjamin was occupied in untying his bag of dollars, and did not observe the approach of the magistrate, while Natty turned his face, in which every muscle was working, away from him in disgust, without answering.†
Chpt 34
- Benjamin ceased thumbing his money, and raised his head at the instant that Hiram, who was thrown off his guard by the invectives of the hunter, unluckily trusted his person within reach of the steward, who grasped one of his legs with a hand that had the grip of a vise, and whirled the magistrate from his feet, before he had either time to collect his senses or to exercise the strength he did really possess.†
Chpt 34
- He exerted his physical powers on the present occasion, with much discretion; and, as he had taken his antagonist at a great disadvantage, the struggle resulted very soon in Benjamin getting the magistrate fixed in a posture somewhat similar to his own, and manfully placed face to face.†
Chpt 34
- "Jotham!" cried the frightened magistrate—" Jotham!†
Chpt 34
- The crowd rushed in a dense circle around the spot, while some ran to the court room to give the alarm, and one or two of the more juvenile part of the multitude had a desperate trial of speed to see who should be the happy man to communicate the critical situation of the magistrate to his wife.†
Chpt 34
- In this manner they marched up the hill to the summit of the mountain, no other alteration taking place in the disposition of the forces, excepting that a mutual complaint was made, by the sheriff and the magistrate, of a failure in wind, which gradually' brought these gentlemen to the rear.†
Chpt 39
- One of the chief concerns of Marmaduke was to reconcile the even conduct of a magistrate with the course that his feelings dictated to the criminals.†
Chpt 41
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)