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(adj) grand, imposing, distinguished
used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
his distinguished bearing; the monarch's imposing presence; she reigned in magisterial beauty
(adj) peremptory, dominating, high-and-mighty, bossy, autocratic
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
an autocratic person; autocratic behavior; a bossy way of ordering others around; a rather aggressive and dominating character; managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way; a swaggering peremptory manner