magistracy

A few years later the presbytery went further than even the magistracy had already done.

I have acted boldly, in the open day, in the presence of the magistracy: there lias been nothing secret or concealed.

Of the nobility not one-tenth, of the magistracy not one-fifth, were favorable to the changes which she wished to introduce.

The law of 412 came in vain to require an interval of ten years before becoming again a candidate for the same magistracy.

But the esteem of his fellow-citizens would not have sufficed, in ordinary times, to have raised him to the first magistracy.