agent vs magistrate

agent

noun
  • One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by that person's authority; someone entrusted to do the business of another 

  • One who exerts power, or has the power to act 

  • An active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect 

  • The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy". 

  • Someone who works for an intelligence agency 

  • A cheat who is assisted by dishonest casino staff. 

  • In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans. 

  • A person who looks for work for another person 

magistrate

noun
  • A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions. 

  • A master's degree. 

  • A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both. 

  • A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome. 

How often have the words agent and magistrate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )