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What is a magistrate?

What is a magistrate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
  2. (historical) A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
  3. (historical, by extension) A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
  4. (Quebec) A master's degree.
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Warrants would be approved by the Attorney General and a federal magistrate or a judge.
At the beginning of every year, dramatists submitted their plays to the archon, or chief magistrate.
Her father, a noble magistrate in Grenoble, sent her, against her wishes, to become a nun.
If the work is so daring as to merit public animadversion, the magistrate summons the printer, who either stands mute or names the author.
Throughout the present brief, Microsoft protests its innocence with as much conviction as an old lag before a magistrate.
In all other cases not on appeal, the defendant is tried in magistrate court by a judge who decides the case with the assistance of a law clerk.

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