Magister Definition

noun
Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
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The possessor of a master's degree.
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Noun

Singular:
magister
Plural:
magisters

Origin of Magister

  • From Latin magister (“a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.”), from magis (“more or great”) + -ter.

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Magister Sentence Examples

  • New styles were devised to express this new relation; thus the abbot of Monte Cassino was called abbas abbatum, while the chiefs of other orders had the titles abbas generalis, or magister or minister generalis.

  • In 385 he was appointed master of the soldiery (magister militum) in Thrace, and shortly afterwards directed energetic campaigns in Britain against Picts, Scots and Saxons, and along the Rhine against other barbarians.

  • From the first he was celebrated (totius Latinitatis magister).

  • The methods which Leonardo made use of in solving those problems fill the Liber quadratorum, the Flos, and a Letter to Magister Theodore.

  • In the Letter to Magister Theodore indeterminate problems are chiefly worked, and Leonardo hints at his being able to solve by a general method any problem of this kind not exceeding the first degree.

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