Word Meaning

magistral definition and meaning

a. Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
a. Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.
a. Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
n. A sovereign medicine or remedy.
n. A magistral line.
n. Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.