Magistral

Magistral - Other Definitions

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