Hypertext Webster Gateway: "magistery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Magistery \Mag"is*ter*y\, n. [L. magisterium the office of a
chief, president, director, tutor. See {Magistrate}.]
1. Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a
sovereign remedy. [Obs.] --Holland.
2. A magisterial injunction. [R.] --Brougham.
3. (Chem.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by
precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain
white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery
of bismuth. --Ure.
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