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Adverb: magisterially  `ma-ji'stee-u-ree-ul-lee
  1. In an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator
    "this manager acts magisterially toward his colleagues"
    - dictatorially, autocratically, bossily
     
  2. In an authoritative and magisterial manner
    "she spoke magisterially"
    - authoritatively

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