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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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"Mastery" Quotes from Famous Books

... debauches of wine or women find it more difficult to apply themselves to things that are profitable, and to abstain from what is hurtful. For many who live frugally before they fall in love become prodigal when that passion gets the mastery over them; insomuch that after having wasted their estates, they are reduced to gain their bread by methods they would have been ashamed of before. What hinders then, but that a man, who has been once temperate, should be so no longer, and that he who has led a good life at one time should not ...

— The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates • Xenophon

... continue to prosper; but the King's financial methods were hardly more conducive to public industry and thrift than his personal example. Wolsey indeed was an able finance minister. In spite of the enormous expenditure on display, his mastery of detail prevented mere waste; and until the pressing necessities of a war-budget arose in 1523, enough money was found by tapping the sources to which Henry VII. had applied, supplemented by the ample hoards which that monarch had left behind. In 1523, the Cardinal's ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... after the great catastrophe which changed him from the mere exaggerated child, gratifying every passion with violence, I knew it depended on what hands he would fall into, whether the spiritual or the animal would have the mastery. Madam, it was into your hands that he fell, and I thank God for it, even more than for the deliverance that my dear pupil has gained ...

— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge

... to anger, and he remembered, while he choked back an impulsive exclamation, the rage for mastery he had once felt when he found a horse whose temper had more than matched his own. "Did she tell you ...

— The Wheel of Life • Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

... think of my incomparable Jenny and her astounding mastery of minutiae at "Crow's Nest"—her finesse and exquisite touch, her kittenlike delicacy, her catlike swiftness and sureness. The two beings involved were as children in her hands. Oh, precious phoenix of a woman, you and I were of the same spirit, kneaded into our clay! ...

— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts

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