noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Here too wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of the magistracy , the clergy and the landed aristocracy.
▪
The result was particularly disappointing, given the fact that the magistracy had already been purged by both Charles and James.
▪
Throughout the six years which have intervened these charges have remained in the magistracy , the subject of successive remands.
▪
What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families.