The magistrate stroked his beard.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

He's the head of the anti-mafia pool of magistrates.

The magistrate disqualified himself from hearing the case because of a conflict of interest.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.