masteryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French maistrie.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæstəɹi/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːst(ə)ɹi/

名詞

mastery (usually uncountable, 複数形 masteries)

1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
   • c. 1610, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Misery of Invasive War

     If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII, stanza 31, pages 370–371:

     They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 32:xxxii–18:

     The voice of them that shout for mastery.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 9:–25:

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

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

3. (obsolete) Contest for superiority.

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4. (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     I wol doon a maistrie 'er I go.

5. (obsolete) The philosopher's stone.
6. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     He […] could attain to a mastery in all languages.

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§173”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:

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

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