magisterial
adjectiveOf, relating to, or characteristic of a master or teacher; authoritative.
adjectiveSedately dignified in appearance or manner.
adjectiveDogmatic; overbearing.
adjectiveOf or relating to a magistrate or a magistrate’s official functions.
Of or pertaining to a master; such as befits a master; authoritative; hence, lofty; arrogant; imperious; domineering.
Of or belonging to a magistrate or his office; of the rank of a magistrate.
In chem., pertaining to magistery.
Synonyms Authoritative, Magisterial, Dogmatic, Arrogant, Domineering, Imperious, Dictatorial, Peremptory, official, grand, haughty, lordly, oracular. Authoritative is rarely used in a bad sense. Magisterial, in the sense of having the manner of a master or magistrate, generally indicates the overdoing of that manner: as, magisterial pomp and gravity. Dogmatic reaches somewhat more deeply into the character; the dogmatic man insists strenuously upon the correctness of his own opinions, and, being unable to see how others can fail to believe with him, dictatorially presses upon them his opinions as true without argument, while he tends also to blame and overbear those who venture to express dissent. (See
Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.