Word Meaning

Meaning of magistral

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