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verb

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.)

adjective

mastered adj. Learned thoroughly.

Synonyms: down, down pat(predicate).

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Etymology of 'Mastered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mastered" Quotes from Famous Books

... trance was o'er, the maid Paused awhile, and inly prayed: Then falling at the Baron's feet, "By my mother's soul do I entreat That thou this woman send away!" She said: and more she could not say: For what she knew she could not tell, O'er-mastered ...

— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons

... sake; and I showed that, in order satisfactorily to fulfil this idea, Philosophy must be its form; or, in other words, that its matter must not be admitted into the mind passively, as so much acquirement, but must be mastered and appropriated as a system consisting of parts, related one to the other, and interpretative of one another in the ...

— The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine - Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin • John Henry Newman

... growth of hemp. Sears advanced slowly, deep in thought, not looking up till he had mounted the last step. At sight of Terry's grinning features he recoiled violently, then as the lad rose, he jumped forward to wring his hand furiously. Incapable of coherent speech for several minutes, he at last mastered his vocal cords. ...

— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

... reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs—a memorandum made by myself for my own eyes, and to be burned as soon as I mastered it. On the face of the figures the balance against me was appalling. My chief asset, indeed my only asset that measured up toward my debts, was my Coal stocks, those bought and those contracted for; ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

... wonderful success of the director in selecting young men who were to make the institution famous by their abilities and industry. If the highest problem of administration is to select the right men, the new director certainly mastered it. So far as liberty of research and publication went, the administration had the appearance of being liberal in the extreme. Doubtless there was another side to the question. Nothing happens spontaneously, and the singular phenomenon of one who had done all this becoming ...

— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

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