Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAG'IS-TRA-CY
MAG'IS-TRA-CY, n. [See Magistrate.]
- The office or dignity of a magistrate. Dueling is not only an usurpation of the divine prerogative, but it is an insult upon magistracy. Clarissa.
- The body of magistrates.
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