magistral
/ˈmadʒɪstɹəl/ · noun
Meaning
- A sovereign medicine or remedy.
- A magistral line.
- Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
- Pertaining to or befitting a master; authoritative.
- (pharmaceutical effect) Sovereign (of a remedy); extremely effective.
- Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
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