'Masteries' definitions:

Definition of 'Masteries'

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  • Mastery \Mas"ter*y\, n.; pl. Masteries. [OF. maistrie.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. [1913 Webster]
  • If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. [1913 Webster]
  • The voice of them that shout for mastery. --Ex. xxxii. 18. [1913 Webster]
  • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. --1 Cor. ix. 25. [1913 Webster]
  • O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • I will do a maistrie ere I go. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. [1913 Webster]
  • He could attain to a mastery in all languages. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
  • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

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