a. Obs. [ANTI- 3.] Opposed to the power or claims of civil magistrates.
1645. Presbyt. Let., in Plea Sacram. Test. The Independents … with other Sects, sufficiently known to be Anti-Magistratical.
1663. South, 36 Serm. (1720), II. 258 (T.). How impossible had it been for the Christian Religion to have made such a spread in the World, at least ever to have gained any Countenance from the Civil Power, had it owned such Anti-magistratical Assertions…?
1669. Honyman, Surv. Naphtali, II. 88. He learneth much of his anti-magistraticall Clergy.
