01 n. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
pl.
Masteries ((#))
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1.
The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.“If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.” — Sir W. Raleigh.
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2.
Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.“The voice of them that shout for mastery.” — Ex. xxxii. 18.“Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.” — 1 Cor. ix. 25.“O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery.” — B. Jonson.
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3.
Contest for superiority.[Obs.]
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4.
A masterly operation; a feat.[Obs.]“I will do a maistrie ere I go.” — Chaucer.
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5.
the philosopher's stone.[Obs.]
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6.
The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.“He could attain to a mastery in all languages.” — Tillotson.“The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.” — Locke.