Cognitio was an official procedure, and a judgment given in it was based on magisterial authority.

In 1790 they gave the collectors of taxes magisterial authority, as part of the criminal administration of the country.

Thomas's suggestion specifically demands that heretics be handed to a "secular tribunal" rather than magisterial authority.

But Morse had taken over completely, and he held up his right hand with a confident, magisterial authority.

Peregrino has magisterial authority, and Adrian's an ally of his.

Other denominations have found unity in confessional documents, or doctrinal formularies, or a systematically articulated theology, or the pronouncements of magisterial authorities.

The council cited Sacred Tradition in support of the Vulgate's magisterial authority:

The former colonists, now Americans, saw "radical destruction of magisterial authority" as the way - perhaps the only way - to keep power in check, to prevent its arbitrary exercise.

The vote against him will be almost strictly partisan, meaning that the Republican victory will meet the arithmetic requirements of the Constitution but will not carry its magisterial authority.

His practical criticism had a magisterial authority and helped establish the canon of 19th-century American writers.