Definition of "magistral" in English

adjective

1. Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative.

   • [Y]ou live on a magistral hill in a venerable mansion, not to speak of governmental rations.

2. (obsolete, pharmacology) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.

3. (pharmacology) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

noun

1. (pharmacology) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

2. (countable) A magistral line.

3. (chiefly uncountable) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.