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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mastery  \Mas"ter*y\,  n.;  pl  {Masteries}.  [OF.  maistrie.] 
  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. 
 
  2.  Superiority  in  war  or  competition;  victory;  triumph; 
  pre["e]minence. 
 
  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 
 
  3.  Contest  for  superiority.  [Obs.]  --Holland. 
 
  4.  A  masterly  operation;  a  feat.  [Obs.] 
 
  I  will  do  a  maistrie  ere  I  go  --Chaucer. 
 
  5.  Specifically,  the  philosopher's  stone.  [Obs.] 
 
  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. 




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