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  • noun Plural form of mastery.

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Examples

  • --- Finally, Pazel's way leads him on board I.M.S. Chathrand – the last of the great ships of old built by shipbuilders and magicians that used masteries now lost forever.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • --- Finally, Pazel's way leads him on board I.M.S. Chathrand – the last of the great ships of old built by shipbuilders and magicians that used masteries now lost forever.

    Robert V.S. Redick - The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Book Review) 2008

  • Like Ostwald, Soddy believed economic progress was made possible by the transition from direct solar energy to successive masteries of nonrenewable stores of fossil fuels.

    Biophysical economics 2008

  • So shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries.

    The Essays 2007

  • He had synagogues constructed in Nancy and Lunéville, and permit to the Jews to have access to all the masteries in the Parliament of Nancy.

    Archive 2007-12-23 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • He had synagogues constructed in Nancy and Lunéville, and permit to the Jews to have access to all the masteries in the Parliament of Nancy.

    A tolerant Louis XVI de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Choosing your hero class will be irreversible, much like the tradeskill masteries.

    MMOG Nation » WoW Hero Class Rumor Mill 2006

  • And ever Sir Launcelot would give him gold to spend, and clothes, and so did Sir Gawaine, and where there were any masteries done, thereat would he be, and there might none cast bar nor stone to him by two yards.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • So this was done, and they were come to his castle, but in no wise the queen would never let none of the ten knights and her ladies out of her sight, but always they were in her presence; for the book saith, Sir Meliagrance durst make no masteries, for dread of Sir Launcelot, insomuch he deemed that he had warning.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • The political sky with its wheeling black shapes and noble music and secret masteries is not the sky he lives and works beneath, gray and changeless, simple as a coffin lid.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

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