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English Dictionary: mastery	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mastery n great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" Synonym(s): command, control, mastery power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" Synonym(s): domination, mastery, supremacy the act of mastering or subordinating someone Synonym(s): mastery, subordination
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mastery \Mas"tery\, n.; pl. {Masteries}. [OF. maistrie.] 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. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; pre[89]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. 3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.] --Holland. 4. A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.] I will do a maistrie ere I go. --Chaucer. 5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.] 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.