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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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... the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brought under its mastery or fling itself free. ...

— In Our First Year of the War - Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, - March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 • Woodrow Wilson

... perspective of color that it cannot contend with the tower, which therefore holds the eye, and becomes the key of the picture. We shall see presently how the very objects which seem at first to contend with it for the mastery are made, occultly, to increase ...

— The Elements of Drawing - In Three Letters to Beginners • John Ruskin

... vital importance to him? It meant the apex of a lifetime of endeavor. It meant the upbuilding of a fortune. Couldn't she see that he and his brother were two lone youngsters against all these shrewd business men, whose only terms of aiding them and floating this big company was to take their mastery of it away from them? Couldn't she understand what control of a million dollar organization meant? He was not angry with Miss Stevens for her apparent attitude in this matter, but he was hurt. He ...

— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester

... need of patience also to hold out in this work of departing from iniquity. For, indeed, to depart from that, is to draw my mind off from that, which will follow me with continual solicitations. Samson withstood his Delilah for a while, but she got the mastery of him at the last; why so? Because he wanted patience, he grew angry and was vexed, and could withstand her solicitation no longer. (Judges 16:15-17) Many there be also, that can well enough be contented to shut sin ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... Chancellor was forced to draw a new one, and then grew so fond of his own creature, that he has crammed it down the throats of both Houses-though they gave many a gulp before they could swallow it. The Duke of Bedford attacked it first with great spirit and mastery, but had little support, though the Duke of Newcastle did not vote. The lawyers were all ordered to purse it through our House: but except the poor Attorney-general,(390) "Who is nurse indeed. to all intents and ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

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