âmagisterialâ
Trending:Lookups spiked 21,000% on May 5, 2019
Magisterial was among our top lookups on the evening of May 5th, 2019, after the word was used by a sports announcer in reference to Kawhi Leonard, a forward for the Toronto Raptors basketball team.
As the clock wound down on Game 4 in Philadelphia, ABCâs Mark Jones started to work his way through the superlatives over a Kawhi Leonard highlight reel. Starting with âmagisterialâ and ending somewhere related to âunstoppableâ, he managed to sum up the general mood around Leonard as it relates to Raptors fans.
â John Gaudes, www.raptorshq.com, 5 May 2019
We offer a number of definitions for magisterial. beginning with âof, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher.â The word may also be defined as âmarked by an overbearingly dignified or assured manner or aspect,â âof, relating to, or required for a master's degree,â or âof or relating to a magistrate or a magistrate's office or duties,â none of which were applicable to Leonardâs performance in last nightâs playoff game against the Philadelphia 76ers.
Magisterial comes from the Late Latin magisterialis (âof authorityâ), which is from magisterium (âoffice of a masterâ), which in turn is from magister (âmaster, teacherâ).
As for that note of the conference with those of Wisbitch, which by your magisteriall authoritie you call a vaine pamphlet, charging that reverende man, who hath taken such notable paines in the Church of god, against your heresies.
â William Charke, An answeare for the time, 1583
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