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.
Superiority in
war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
The
voice of them that shout for mastery.
Exodus.
xxxii.
18.
Every man that striveth for the Mastery is temperate in all things.
1 Corinthians.
ix.
25.
O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery.
B.
Jonson.
(obsolete) Contest for superiority.
Holland.
(obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.
I will do a maistrie ere I go.
Chaucer.
(obsolete) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
The act or 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.