MAGISTRAL

magistral

Noun

  1. A sovereign medicine or remedy.
  2. A magistral line.
  3. Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative.
  2. Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.
  3. Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.


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