Opposed to or acting against magistrates, judicial authority, or the exercise of official government power.
From 'anti-' + 'magistratical' (from Latin 'magistratus', magistrate, + English '-ical'). A rare legal and political term from early modern English describing resistance to court authority.
Antimagistratical arguments appear in English legal disputes from the 1600s, especially during conflicts between Parliament and the Crown—the word itself became a weapon in debates about who held legitimate authority.
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