Word Meanings - MASTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: MASTERY

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; 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. Contest for superiority. Holland. 4. A masterly operation; a feat. I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer. 5. Specifically, the philosopher's stone. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MASTERY)

• Ascendancy
• Superiority
• advantage
• mastery
• control
• influence
• supremacy
• sway
• domination
• authority
• Dominance
• Lordship
• superiority
• preponderance
• prevalence
• Rule
• Regulation
• law
• precept
• principle
• maxim
• practice
• guide
• canon
• order
• method
• direction
• government
• decision
• determination
• habit
• Sway
• Wield
• rule
• bias
• dominion
• ascendency
• weight
• force
• power

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MASTERY)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to MASTERY)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• CANON BONE
  The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• LORDSHIP
  1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence , a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge , etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and
• CANON
  A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.