See mastery on Wiktionary
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britain Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, page 596:",
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"ref": "1909, Selwyn Image, “The Serious Art of Thomas Rowlandson”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 14, page 12:",
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"dominion"
],
[
"command",
"command"
],
[
"supremacy",
"supremacy"
],
[
"superiority",
"superiority"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 32:xxxii–18:",
"text": "The voice of them that shout for mastery.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 9:–25:",
"text": "Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence."
],
"links": [
[
"victory",
"victory"
],
[
"triumph",
"triumph"
],
[
"preeminence",
"preeminence"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:",
"text": "He […]could attain to a mastery in all languages.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1693, [John Locke], “§173”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1941 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 484:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise."
],
"links": [
[
"expertise",
"expertise"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britain Under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, page 596:",
"text": "[…] pastimes of wrestling, and like maſteries betweene the Citizens of London and others of the Suburbes […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1936, John Clayton, The Anger of the North, page 69:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1929, Delphian Society, “Delphian Text”, in Paolo and Francesca, volume 7, page 441:",
"text": "Come, Paolo, we two have never held / A mastery between us — tell me out!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A contest for superiority."
],
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],
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"superiority",
"superiority"
]
],
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"(obsolete) A contest for superiority."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1516, Robert Fabyan, New cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce:",
"text": "Ye welsh men..brake out vpon the Englysshe men in ye Bordour..and there made masteryes for a whyle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1546, John Bale, The actes of Englysh votaryes:",
"text": "That ye maye knowe..what masteryes they haue played.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1592, Angell Day, The English secretorie:",
"text": "By a number of odde speeches..you doo yet suppose to haue wrought a mastery.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1905, John Stephen Farmer, “Thersites”, in Six Anonymous Plays, page 212:",
"text": "Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1909, Selwyn Image, “The Serious Art of Thomas Rowlandson”, in The Burlington Magazine, volume 14, page 12:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, John Merrill Davis, Striving for Masteries and Other Baccalaureate Sermons, page 5:",
"text": "And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A masterly operation; a feat."
],
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"masterly",
"masterly"
],
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"feat",
"feat"
]
],
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"(obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The philosopher's stone."
],
"links": [
[
"philosopher's stone",
"philosopher's stone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) The philosopher's stone."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈmɑːs.t(ə.)ɹi/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈmæs.tɚ.i/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "masterie"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "varpetutʻyun",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"word": "վարպետություն"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vláda"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nadvláda"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"word": "hallinta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"word": "määräysvalta"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mestría"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potestas"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "position or authority of a master",
"word": "mast"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "superiority in war or competition",
"word": "hallinta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "superiority in war or competition",
"word": "ylivoima"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "superiority in war or competition",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mestría"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "contest for superiority",
"word": "valtataistelu"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "majstorstvo",
"sense": "masterly operation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "майсторство"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "masterly operation",
"word": "huippusuoritus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "masterly operation",
"word": "maineteko"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "masterly operation",
"word": "uroteko"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "varpetutʻyun",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"word": "վարպետություն"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "mistrovství"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"word": "hallinta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maîtrise"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mestría"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "padronanza"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maestria"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "mestring"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maestria"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dominio"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "act or process of mastering, expertise",
"word": "mast"
}
],
"word": "mastery"
}
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