Mastery

Definitions

1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
   uncountable, usually
2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
   uncountable, usually
3. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
   uncountable, usually
4. A contest for superiority.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
5. A masterly operation; a feat.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
6. The philosopher's stone.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

18 more languages

العربيةالإجادةتمكن

Bosanskivladaгосподство

Češtinamistrovstvínadvládaovládnutívláda+ 1 more

Suomihallintahuippusuoritusmääräysvaltamainetekomestarillisuusmestariusmestaruustaituriusurotekovaltataisteluylivoima+ 8 more

Galegomestermestría

हिन्दीक़ाबूप्रभुत्व

Hrvatskivladaгосподство

Հայերենվարպետություն

Italianomaestriapadronanza

日本語制圧手練れ精通

Latinaarbitriumdominatiopotestas

Latviešuapguve

Polskimaestriapanowanie

Portuguêsmaestria

Русскийборьба́ за властьвладениевладычествовластьгосподствомастерствоовладениепревосходство+ 5 more

Српскиvladaгосподство

Svenskamästerskap

Türkçeustalık

Examples

“If divided by mountains, they will fight⟳ for the mastery of the passages of the tops.”

“The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay⟳ beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.”

“They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill⟳.”

“The voice of them that shout⟳ for mastery.”

“Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.”

“O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.”

“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.”

“At Tebay however, he began to get⟳ the mastery over these untoward conditions, and actually got back a little time up to Shap, after which all was plain sailing.”

“[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like⟳ maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]”

“Rury has given the word for some rare sport — a bout of games and masteries between me and Marcos Serkman to prove⟳ which is the better man.”

“Come⟳, Paolo, we two have⟳ never held / A mastery between us — tell⟳ me out!”

“Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.”

“That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.”

“By a number⟳ of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose⟳ to haue wrought a mastery.”

“Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try⟳ masteries with me a-pluck.”

“To accomplish this is a great mastery, a rare mastery: but it is an accomplishment that seems to have⟳ been Rowlandson's easily whenever he would.”

“And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.”

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