Mastery
Mastery , noun
[Old French 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.
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. [Obsolete] — Holland
4.
A masterly operation; a feat. [Obsolete]
I will do a maistrie ere I go.
5.
the philosopher's stone. [Obsolete]
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.