magistrate Copy link • magistrate: măgistrātus, ūs (one bearing a public office): to appoint m.s, m. creare, Liv. 5, 17: to deliver a person up to a m., aliquem magistratui tradere, Nep. Epam. 4: the m.s are the servants of the laws, legum ministri m., Cic. Clu. 53, 146.