magistral

  1. Adjective.  Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  2. Adjective.  (obsolete, pharmacology) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective. (defdate, 16th-17th c.) .
  3. Adjective.  (pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  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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