What's the difference between magistery and sovereign?

Magistery


Definition:

  • (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
  • (n.) A magisterial injunction.
  • (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sylvia Walby, in her new book, The Future of Feminism , adjudicates on this magisterially.
  • (2) Black women who had borne one or more children in the 5 years preceding the study and who were resident on white-owned farms were sampled in a multistage cluster procedure from the population of two magisterial districts of the southern Transvaal, Ventersdorp and Balfour.
  • (3) He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.
  • (4) He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn.
  • (5) Prepared by the Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Donum Vitae is intended as a magisterial teaching document that invites further reflection on the relationship between natural moral law and reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization.
  • (6) Valid comparisons between the MRs of the rural areas and either Soweto or the 34 'selected' magisterial districts cannot be made.
  • (7) Whenever I think of carers and their management, I always think of Peter Thompson's magisterial account of the First World War entitled Lions Led By Donkeys, which neatly encapsulates the lack of wherewithal the further up the chain of command one goes.
  • (8) What a fall there has been, from that magisterial orator who lived for the supremacy of the law to the present incumbent, Chris Grayling: not a lawyer , and not seeming to understand, much less respect, the ideals of justice under the law that his party used to stand for.
  • (9) Lionel Messi delivered a "magisterial" display to inspire Barcelona to a 4-0 win over Milan and complete a remarkable comeback that took his side into the quarter-finals of the Champions League .
  • (10) Simon Heffer, author of a magisterial biography of Powell, seemed irritated by my emphasis on the "send them back" aspect of Powell's policy when we discussed Powell's legacy on the radio last year.
  • (11) The critical response was overwhelming - "magisterial", "scrupulously fair", "exemplary".
  • (12) Mortality rates (MRs) for cancer in black men and women, aged 25-74 years, in the 34 'selected' (urban) magisterial districts were calculated for 1980 and compared with the MRs for cancer in 1970.
  • (13) With his usual magisterial disdain, Godard again declined to visit the Croisette, but shook things up with another free-form essay in the vein he's developed over the past two decades — a radically fragmented flash-fry of sounds, texts, images and gags, and this time, all in 3D.
  • (14) Even Liam Fox admits crashing out of the single market without new arrangements would be “bad” for Britain, itself a magisterial understatement.
  • (15) Then came a volume on Jesus (in the Past Masters series in 1978), as well as acclaimed and magisterial biographies: WH Auden (1981), winner of the EM Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984: a ground-breaking life of Ezra Pound (A Serious Character: The Life Of Ezra Pound, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1988); Benjamin Britten (1992); and more controversial studies of Robert Runcie (which made use of what turned out to be indiscreet tapes) and the television playwright Denis Potter (which alleged that Potter availed himself of the services of prostitutes).
  • (16) It looks very likely, with magazine publishers – in the wake of Private Eye , the Spectator , the New Statesman and, for heaven's sake, a thunderously magisterial Economist – following suit.
  • (17) Sampling of both inpatient trauma cases and those seen in casualty departments took place in 6 state and 5 private hospitals located within or nearby the Johannesburg magisterial district.
  • (18) This is a pity, not just because the whole idea of democracy implies an informed electorate (which in this area is something we don't have) but also because there is plenty of drama and interest in the world of money – as Kynaston's magisterial history amply demonstrates.
  • (19) His book, The Compleat Conductor, is a magisterial examination of the mistakes that conductors from Toscanini to Rattle have made.
  • (20) As Peter Ackroyd writes in his magisterial London: The Biography : “If London were a living thing, we would say all of its optimism and confidence have returned.

Sovereign


Definition:

  • (a.) Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
  • (a.) Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
  • (a.) Princely; royal.
  • (a.) Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
  • (a.) Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
  • (n.) The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
  • (n.) A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
  • (n.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
  • (2) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
  • (3) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
  • (4) "It is pointless to think sovereign bond rates could be brought down for an extended period of time by outside interventions," said Draghi.
  • (5) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
  • (6) Updated at 1.43pm BST 1.10pm BST Portugal's 10-year sovereign bonds ended last month at their strongest level since the country was bailed out in May 2011, a sign that investors may be a little more confident about its prospects.
  • (7) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
  • (8) He arrived in 1998 when a boat carrying asylum seekers bound for Italy foundered off the coast; he and others were rescued and brought to a second British sovereign base on Cyprus, Akrotiri.
  • (9) Steinbrück is also right to accuse Merkel the of not having communicated the real nature of the European crisis: she continues to talk about a sovereign debt crisis even though, apart from Greece, the real macro-economic instability originated in the private sector.
  • (10) "As others, we have been surprised on the upside on the growth performance so far this year on the UK" said Moritz Kraemer, S&P's head of sovereign ratings for Europe."
  • (11) But when weapons are flowing from the borders of a sovereign state, it is very clear where the blame lies.
  • (12) We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government – and you got the job done.
  • (13) But Abbott said “operation sovereign borders” – aimed at “stopping the boats” would start as soon as the new government was sworn in on Wednesday.
  • (14) Finally and most crucially, Team Obama would have to convince the Israelis that a strong Lebanese army under the control of a democratically elected government is far better than Hezbollah armed to the teeth, given all the domestic and historical limitations that govern the army's use of offensive force – and that finally allowing such an army to be formed, withdrawing from all the remaining occupied territory in south Lebanon and ending its air force's illegal flyovers would actually improve Israel's security in the long run by encouraging the construction of a truly stable, sovereign neighbour.
  • (15) Tsipras also emphasised that Greece is a “sovereign country with an irrevocable right to conduct a multi-faceted foreign policy”.
  • (16) "The downgrade of the UK's sovereign ratings primarily reflects a weaker economic and fiscal outlook and hence the upward revision to Fitch's medium-term projections for UK budget deficits and government debt," it said.
  • (17) The implementation of sorely needed structural reforms is now an important step to take in order to solve the sovereign debt crisis and achieve faster and more sustained growth in EU member states.
  • (18) The response from the SPD opposition was harsh and noted that the government's gradual approach had led to a dramatic intensification of the sovereign debt crisis.
  • (19) He stressed, however, that Ukraine would remain a sovereign and united entity, under the terms of a peace deal agreed in Minsk last Friday.
  • (20) That’s why a simple PowerPoint presentation becomes Operation Sovereign Borders.