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Mastery
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- 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 the act of mastering or subordinating someone wordnet
- 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 great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity wordnet
- 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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- 6 power to dominate or defeat wordnet
- 7 A contest for superiority. obsolete, uncountable, usually
"[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]"
- 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."
- 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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