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What does "mastery" mean?

Mastery: Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preëminence. The voice of them that shout for mastery. Ex. xxxii.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Cor. ix.
  2. 3.O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery. B. Jonson.
  3. 4.Contest for superiority. [Obs.] Holland.
  4. 5.A masterly operation; a feat. [Obs.] I will do a maistrie ere I go. Chaucer.
  5. 6.Specifically, the philosopher's stone. [Obs.]
  6. 7.The act 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.

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