What's the difference between magistracy and magistrature?
Magistracy
Definition:
(n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.
(n.) The collective body of magistrates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The samplings took place once every month and on the same day flow measurements were effected by the Magistracy of the river Po in the five stations.
(2) For services to the Magistracy and to Education in Chorley and Preston, Lancashire.
(3) For services to the Magistracy and to the community in Cliburn, Cumbria.
(4) For services to the Magistracy and to the Police Authority in Dorset.
(5) It is 15 years since Democratic Audit identified 5,521 quangos which Professor John Stewart dubbed "the new magistracy" of unelected officials who run Britain as they did before the 1832 reforms.
(6) Our decision follows Mr Page being removed from the magistracy after the public comments he made about single-sex adopters.
Magistrature
Definition:
(n.) Magistracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The above subjects, which are closely connected with the problem of the illicit transfer of capital of criminal origin, are followed by a brief summary of the action of the magistrature, of the regulations at present governing kidnapping cases and of the measures taken to prevent recycle of currency.
(2) While the Mafia flourished largely unchecked in southern Italy, Craxi busied himself with a series of offensives against the independence of the magistrature.