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noun

Mastery n. (pl. masteries)

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."

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. "The voice of them that shout for mastery." "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." "O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery."

Contest for superiority. (Obs.)

A masterly operation; a feat. (Obs.) "I will do a maistrie ere I go."

Specifically, The philosopher's stone. (Obs.)

The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. "He could attain to a mastery in all languages." "The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties."

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Etymology of 'Mastery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mastery" Quotes from Famous Books

... finesse or skill in the management of men, with scarcely any assistance, and almost entirely by his own energy and force of conviction. His industry and capacity for work were prodigious. He spoke frequently, and on a wide range of subjects requiring careful study and mastery of facts. In the divisions he obtained little support. He had antagonized the French-Canadians, the Clear Grits of Upper Canada were for the time determined to stand by the government, and his views were usually not such as the Conservatives could endorse, although they occasionally followed ...

— George Brown • John Lewis

... after describing a piece of antique sculpture he saw in Rome adds, "To express the perfection of learning, mastery, and art displayed in it is beyond the power of language. Its more exquisite beauties could not be discovered by the sight, but only by the touch of the hand passed over it." Of another classic marble at Padua he says, ...

— The World I Live In • Helen Keller

... building, one of the granges of the Abbey, presenting a long flank unbroken by door or window. The horse stretched itself into a gallop, and headed straight for that craggy thirty-foot wall. He would break in red ruin at the base of it if he could but dash forever the life of this man, who claimed mastery over that which had ...

— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... than he knew. Miss Osborn liked him, but her father's rank and traditions were daunting obstacles. Kit felt this was unjust, and raw passions and prejudices that he was, as a rule, too sensible to indulge, got the mastery. ...

— The Buccaneer Farmer - Published In England Under The Title "Askew's Victory" • Harold Bindloss

... now—his name and glory have waved across America like a pennon of victory. I do not intend as others have done to describe every small detail of his early life[17]—I merely wish with a few brief and decided strokes of the pen to expose to the public his mastery of psychology, his exquisite grace of style and above all his amazing supremacy of grammar. No writer since Steve Montespan Pligger has achieved such stupendous feats of literature and even he—Pligger—failed over his ...

— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward

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