Mastery /(?)/

pl. Masteries

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.

2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

   The voice of them that shout for mastery.

   Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

   O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery.

3. Contest for superiority. [Obs.]
4. A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.]

   I will do a maistrie ere I go.

5. 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.

   The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.