MASTERY

Mastery

Mastery is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career which lasted from October 2008 until 2010 he ran thirteen times and won five races. As a three-year-old in 2009 he won the Derby Italiano and the St Leger. In 2010 he won the Hong Kong Vase.

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mastery

Noun

  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 Walter Raleigh.
  2. 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. — Ben Jonson.
  3. Contest for superiority.
  4. A masterly operation; a feat.
    I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer.
  5. The philosopher's stone.
  6. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
    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.


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