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verb

Master v. t. (past & past part. mastered; pres. part. mastering)

To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue. "Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows."

To gain the command of, so as to understand or apply; to become an adept in; as, to master a science.

To own; to posses. (Obs.) "The wealth That the world masters."

Master v. i. To be skillful; to excel. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Mastering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mastering" Quotes from Famous Books

... and by intellectual analysis, which an individual ignores at his peril. As was pointed out in the discussion of habit-forming (ante, p. 49), there is always a danger that these methods will become mechanized and rigid, mastering an agent instead of being powers at command for his own ends. But it is also true that the innovator who achieves anything enduring, whose work is more than a passing sensation, utilizes classic methods more than may appear ...

— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

... of their mental capacities. Lecturing that is more than mere entertainment is an art which young instructors sometimes look upon as an easy acquisition and which older heads, after long years of experience, often despair of ever mastering. The lecture aims to do what books seldom accomplish—to infuse life and spirit into the subject; and this ideal a living personality may hope to realize where a ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... calm and determined, with a new life grown up in him, a new strength different from the mastering force which gave him a strength in the theatre like one in a delirium, he noticed nothing. He was only conscious of the omniscient night and its warm, penetrating friendliness; as, in a great trouble, when no words can be spoken, ...

— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker

... while to show in detail how these also could be reduced to formulae as rigorous as those of Aristotle. What Mr. De Morgan has done was worth doing once (perhaps more than once, as a school exercise); but I question if its results are worth studying and mastering for any practical purpose. The practical use of technical forms of reasoning is to bar out fallacies: but the fallacies which require to be guarded against in ratiocination properly so called, arise from ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... to do he made me do ... he took to beating me on every pretext. When my grandmother protested, he said he was only educating me the way I should go ... that I had been let run wild too long without a mastering hand, and with only women in the house. He must make a man ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

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