Crossword clues for masteries
masteries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mastery \Mas"ter*y\, n.; pl. Masteries. [OF. maistrie.]
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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.
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Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; pre["e]minence.
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. Contest for superiority. [Obs.]
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A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.]
I will do a maistrie ere I go.
--Chaucer. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.]
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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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mastery English)
Usage examples of "masteries".
In such discussions they worked out the names that ever since have been given to the masteries: finding, weather-working, changing, healing, summoning, patterning, naming, and the crafts of illusion, and the knowledge of the songs.
Mining and refining were indeed great crafts with their own mysteries and masteries, but Gelluk seemed to know nothing of those arts.
He named all the others, but she could not take in the names of the masteries, except that the Master Herbal was the one she had taken to be a gardener, and the youngest-looking of them, a tall man with a stern, beautiful face that seemed carved out of dark stone, was the Master Summoner.
If the secrets of his masteries provided the final key to their survival as demon pawns, Keithland's destruction could no longer be prevented.
But where the progression of Vaere-trained masteries had been orderly, a logical sequence of images as Sathid assimilated experience from infancy to adulthood, the present experience was chaotic.
And ever Sir Launcelot would give him gold to spend, and clothes, and so did Sir Gawaine, and where there were any masteries done, thereat would he be, and there might none cast bar nor stone to him by two yards.
She has acquired deep learning, hard-won skill, many of the masteries of Merlin.
So the Lone One went to the Ten in disguise, pretending to be a stranger, a new whale sent to them so that they could decide under which of their Masteries it fell.