Mastery

//ˈmɑːs.t(ə.)ɹi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. uncountable, usually

    "If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops."

  2. 2
    the act of mastering or subordinating someone wordnet
  3. 3
    Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. uncountable, usually

    "They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill."

  4. 4
    great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity wordnet
  5. 5
    The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise. uncountable, usually

    "He […]could attain to a mastery in all languages."

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  1. 6
    power to dominate or defeat wordnet
  2. 7
    A contest for superiority. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]"

  3. 8
    A masterly operation; a feat. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle."

  4. 9
    The philosopher's stone. obsolete, uncountable, usually

Etymology

From Middle English maistery, maistrie, mastere, mastry, from Old French maistrie, equivalent to master + -y.

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