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master-mason
[See master n.1 25 d.]
1. A mason who designs and carries out building in stone or who employs workmen to shape and fit stonework.
1428in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 6 Mason's weages with maistre mason's rewarde {pstlg}5 9 2. 1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus (1562) 53 In buyldinges there bee maister masons and carpenters which do devise the worke. 1697G. Dallas Syst. Stiles ii. 89 Gifts to be the King's Master-Printer, Master-Mason, Master-Wright, Bower, Sclater [etc.]. 1729Fenton Observ. Waller's Poems 30 Stone, who was master-mason to King Charles I.
2. A fully qualified freemason, who has passed the third degree.
[c1430Freemasonry (Halliw.) 15 The mayster mason moste be ful securly Bothe stedefast, trusty, and trwe.] 1723J. Andrews & Desaguliers Constit. Free-Masons 10 Though there were employ'd about it no less than 3,600 Princes, or Master-Masons, to conduct the Work according to Solomon's Directions. 1737S. Prichard Masonry Dissected (ed. 7) 25 Q. Are you a Master-Mason? A. I am; try me, prove me, disprove me if you can. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 624/2 Having voted the oldest master-mason then present into the chair, constituted themselves a grand-lodge. |