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mastery |
2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mastery n 1: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" [syn: {command}, {control}] 2: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" [syn: {domination}, {supremacy}] 3: the act of mastering or subordinating someone [syn: {subordination}]
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