Thesaurus: mastery

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1. n. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
2. n. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
3. n. Contest for superiority.
4. n. A masterly operation; a feat.
5. n. Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
6. n. The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.
7. n. great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
8. n. power to dominate or defeat
9. n. the act of mastering or subordinating someone
10. 1. 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. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preëminence. The voice of them that shout for mastery. Ex. xxxii. 18. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Cor. ix. 25. O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. B. Jonson. 3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.] Holland. 4. A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.] I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer. 5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.] 6. The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. He could attain to a mastery in all languages. Tillotson. The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.
11. n:100 n. the act of mastering or subordinating someone