Main entry: magisterial, grand, imposing, distinguished
Definition: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
Usage: his distinguished bearing; the monarch's imposing presence; she reigned in magisterial beauty
Main entry: peremptory, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, bossy, autocratic
Definition: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
Usage: an autocratic person; autocratic behavior; a bossy way of ordering others around; a rather aggressive and dominating character; managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way; a swaggering peremptory manner
Main entry: magisterial
Definition: of or relating to a magistrate
Usage: official magisterial functions