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