Mastery
['mɑːst(ə)rɪ] or ['mæstəri]
Definition
(n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
(n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
(n.) Contest for superiority.
(n.) A masterly operation; a feat.
(n.) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
(n.) The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dominion, rule, sway, command, mastership, supreme power.[2]. Superiority, pre-eminence, ascendency, supremacy, victory, conquest, upper hand.[3]. Acquirement, attainment, acquisition.[4]. Skill, dexterity, great proficiency.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Authority, leadership, headship, proficiency, success, superiority, victory,advantage
ANT:Subservience, tutelage, submission, guidance, obedience, inexpertness, ignorance,failure, defeat, surrender
Editor: Theresa
Examples
- In the year 1896 three important advances were made in man's mastery of his environment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had no iron mastery of his sensations now; a trifling emotion made itself apparent in his present weak state. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Needless to say, mastery of its literature is regarded by him as a most important preliminary in taking up any line of investigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This sense of mastery in a winning battle against the conditions of our life is, I believe, the social myth that will inspire our reconstructions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here was another weight of chain to drag, and poor Lydgate was in a bad mood for bearing her dumb mastery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the seventeenth century, the store was still small enough so that men set up the ideal of a complete encyclopedic mastery of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was one art in the mastery of which nothing mortal ever surpassed Mr. Donne: it was that of begging. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I thought I had more strength and mastery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Civilization is the progressive mastery of its varied energies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It marks an inquiring, hunting, searching attitude, instead of one of mastery and possession. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a part of Mr. Tulkinghorn's policy and mastery to have no political opinions; indeed, NO opinions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Noreen