mastery

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  1. noun Possession of consummate skill.
  2. noun The status of master or ruler; control: mastery of the seas.
  3. noun Full command of a subject of study: Her mastery of economic theory impressed the professors.

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  • Self-mastery was his idiosyncrasy; it was particularly noticeable in his speaking; he encouraged in himself such scrupulous economy of gesture, movement and colour that, after hearing him many times, I came to the definite conclusion that Chamberlain's opponents were snowed under by his accumulated moderation. —  Margot Asquith, An Autobiography
  • Then he won back to self-mastery, as this man of hers always would. —  Map.html
  • The hollowness of blighted swordsmen aligned naturally with the meditative discipline of sword mastery, allowing them to evade horror by concentrating solely on their skill. —  Tabletop Gaming News
  • This mastery was then applied to Digital Signage Solutions, resulting in a robust digital signage operating system, user-friendly authoring tools, and 24 / 7 support services. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • What is true is that the pope and the emperor contended for the mastery, and the masses gave it to the pope. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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  1. from Middle English mastry, maistry, maystrye, maistrie, meystry, from Old French maistrie (= Spanish maestria = Portuguese mestria = Italian maestria), mastery, from maistre, master: see master, n.
 

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