Magisterial

When magisterial duties from his home
Her father called. Glover.

We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Sir T. Browne.

Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. L'Estrange.

Syn. -- Authoritative] stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty; commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic; dogmatical; arrogant. -- Magisterial, Dogmatical, Arrogant. One who is magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his pupils; one who is dogmatical lays down his positions in a tone of authority or dictation; one who is arrogant in sults others by an undue assumption of superiority. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire, unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant.