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Lordly vs Magisterial - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between lordly and magisterial

is that lordly is of or relating to a lord while magisterial is befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.

As an adverb lordly

is in the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

lordly

English

Adjective

  • (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
    • Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
  • Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
  • * Bible, Judges v. 25
    • She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
  • * Tennyson
    • The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
  • * 1849 — , chapter 27
    • It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
  • * 1897 — , chapter 27
    • There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
  • Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
  • * Milton
    • Lords are lordliest in their wine.

    Adverb

    (er)
  • In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
  • * 1891 , , The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation , ] Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,
  • * {{quote-book, 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, year_published=2003 citation
    • , passage=Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.}}

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    magisterial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
  • Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 622:
  • *:Instead a ‘magisterial ’ Reformation was created: these were the Protestant movements led by the magistri , the theologically educated masters, and magistrates of all descriptions – kings, princes, city councils.
  • Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery.