magistracies
Meaning
of Magistracy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
All magistracies and the tribunes of the plebs had resigned in advance.
As, however, in ordinary cases an ex-senator was not disqualified by his ignominia for holding any of the magistracies which opened the way to the senate, he might at the next census again become a senator.
Republican governors were all men who had served in senior magistracies (the consulate or praetorship ) in Rome in the previous year, and carried related titles as governor (proconsul or propraetor).
Attributes The censorship differed from all other Roman magistracies in the length of office.
His powers within the state seem to have rested upon these magistracies.