Definition of: magistery

(maj′is·ter′ē, -tər·ē) noun plural ·ter·ies
1. An authoritative statement or exposition; a magisterial decree.
2. A fundamental master principle of nature; also, a panacea.
3. In alchemy, the power to transmute metals or the product of transmutation.
4. A compound, as a precipitate, formed when two liquids are mixed, and differing in character from either: a term used by the older chemists and preserved in the phrase magistery of bismuth. [<Med. L magisterium the philosopher's stone <L. See MAGISTERIUM.]