mastery

1. n. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority. Source: opted

2. n. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence. Source: opted

3. n. Contest for superiority. Source: opted

4. n. A masterly operation; a feat. Source: opted

5. n. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. Source: opted

6. n. The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered. Source: opted

7. n. great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity Source: wordnet

8. n. power to dominate or defeat Source: wordnet

9. n. the act of mastering or subordinating someone Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

11. n:100 n. the act of mastering or subordinating someone Source: ecdict

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