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Webster 1913 Edition

Magistery

Mag′is-ter-y

,
Noun.
[L.
magisterium
the office of a chief, president, director, tutor. See
Magistrate
.]
1.
Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
[Obs.]
Holland.
2.
A magisterial injunction.
[R.]
Brougham.
3.
(Chem.)
A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; – applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions;
as,
magistery
of bismuth
.
Ure.

Webster 1828 Edition

Magistery

MAG'ISTERY

,
Noun.
[L. magisterium.] Among chimists, a precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; usually applied to particular kinds of precipitate, as that of bismuth, coal, crab's eyes, sulphur, &c.

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