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   Mastery (?), n.; pl. Masteries (#). [OF. maistrie.]
   
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   1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
   
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   If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops. Sir W. Raleigh.
   
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   2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
   
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   The voice of them that shout for mastery. Ex. xxxii. 18.
   
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   Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Cor. ix. 25.
   
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   O, but to have gulled him
   
   Had been a mastery. B. Jonson.
   
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   3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.]  Holland.
   
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   4. A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.]
   
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   I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer.
   
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   5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.]
   
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   6. The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.
   
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   He could attain to a mastery in all languages. Tillotson.
   
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   The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.
   
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