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Master v. t. (past & past part. mastered; pres. part. mastering)

To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue. "Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows."

To gain the command of, so as to understand or apply; to become an adept in; as, to master a science.

To own; to posses. (Obs.) "The wealth That the world masters."

Master v. i. To be skillful; to excel. (Obs.)

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"Mastering" Quotes from Famous Books

... country in his life; he stood and gazed with all his eyes. He could see the cities, and the woods and fields, and the bright curves of the river, and far away to where the rim of the plain trenched along the shining heavens. An over-mastering emotion seized upon the boy, soul and body; his heart beat so thickly that he could not breathe; the scene swam before his eyes; the sun seemed to wheel round and round, and throw off, as it turned, strange shapes which disappeared with the rapidity of thought, and ...

— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and consequently was counted as very small fry indeed. He was a quiet, undemonstrative chap but Peggy liked him from the moment she met him. He had mastered one important bit of knowledge: That a "plebe" does well to lie low, and as the result of mastering that salient fact he was well liked by the upper-classmen and found them ready to do him a good many friendly turns which a more "raty" fourth-classman would not have found ...

— Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home • Gabrielle E. Jackson

... traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors, and to Irishmen universally. Fielding is open to the same stern criticism, as a deliberate falsehood-monger; and from the same cause—want of energy to face the difficulty of mastering a real living idiom. This defect in language, however, I cite only as one feature in the complex falsehood which disfigures Fielding's portrait of the English country gentleman. Meantime the question ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... could lead him about by a strap, and I made a little halter and a bridle for him. I didn't see why I shouldn't train him a little while he was young and manageable. I think it is cruel to let colts run till one has to employ severity in mastering them. Of course, I did not let him do much work. Colts are like boys—a boy shouldn't do a man's work, but he had exercise every day, and I trained him to draw a light cart behind him. I used to do all kinds of things to accustom him to unusual sounds. Father talked a good deal ...

— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders

... Stillness and stars and over-mastering dreams Of Life and Death and Sleep; Heard over gleaming flats the old unchanging sound Of the old ...

— The Song of the Sword - and Other Verses • W. E. Henley

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