magistral

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The mercantilism against which the work of Adam Smith was so magistral a protest was already rather a matter of external than internal commerce when he wrote.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph

He has matured, become virile and even magistral.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

The line of the escarp is called the magistral line since it regulates the trace.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

Compounding that assay and calcination with magistral, nothing was obtained.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph