Masteries

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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