MASTERY

mastery. Mastery, n. rule, dominion, power, conquest, skill

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Mas″ter‐y (?), n.; pl. Masteries (#). [[OF. maistrie.]] 1. 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. 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. 3. Contest for superiority. Holland.
4. 4. A masterly operation; a feat.
I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer. 5. 5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
6. 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.