magistrates

Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders. n

One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates.

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries

One of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome. n