unmagistrate

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unmagistrate (third-person singular simple present unmagistrates, present participle unmagistrating, simple past and past participle unmagistrated)

(obsolete, transitive) To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate.
- 1649, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], published 1649 (2nd printing), →OCLC:
  [the government] might, if they saw cause , take all power , authority , and the sword out of his hand , which in effect is to unmagistrate him

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unmagistrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)