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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
magistrate /ˈmadʒɪstrət, -streɪt/

▶noun a civil officer who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court concerned with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

– derivatives
magistrature /-trətʃə/ noun.

– origin ME: from L. magistratus ‘administrator’, from magister ‘master’.

'magistrate' also found in these Oxford entries:

alcalde - bailie - beak - bench - burgess - censor - censorious - court of summary jurisdiction - curule - dictator - doge - fasces - itinerate - jurat - justice - Justice of the Peace - lictor - magisterial - magistracy - metropolitan magistrate - prefect - provost - purple - recognizance - reeve - sharif - squire - stadtholder - summary - tribunal - up - worship

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