| 单词 | to try masteries |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto try (also play, prove, etc.) masteries c. A competitive or emulative feat of strength or skill. Esp. in to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteries: to engage in a trial of strength or skill. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)] envyc1369 to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393 strive?c1450 pingle?a1513 marrow1567 corrive1586 contend1589 tilt1589 to drop vie(s)1599 to prove conclusions1601 to try (a) conclusion1601 rival1608 wage1608 campa1614 vie1615 buzzle1638 side1641 rival1656 urge1691 compete1796 rivalize1800 society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a competitive feat masterya1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. 682 Thei scholden come Unto the gamen..To do such maistrie as thei myhte. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1028 He proued many maystryes. c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 77 King Edwarde iijde..exersised..all his noble sonnes in suche maiestries wherby they were more apt in haunting of armes. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xvii. sig. Hviii The great game of Olympus; wherto..came the moste actife and valiant persons to assay maistries. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 24 Many daunsynges..and other tryinge of mastryes. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 47 in Jewell House [Soil] fitter for gardens, or for the trial of maisteries, then for the enriching of arable or pasture grounds. 1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 30* Stage-playes, Gymnicke Exercises, and Masteries in Musicke. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 108 This is but to try Masteries with Fortune. a1645 D. Featley Orationes Synodicæ vii, in Καταβάπτισται Κατάπτυστοι: Dippers Dipt (1647) 211 Unlesse he prove masteries again, and in another race out-strip his adversary. 1666 Earl of Arlington Let. 6 July in Lett. to W. Temple (1701) 87 Till they have tryed the Mastery with our Fleet. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 501 They were soon..kill'd like other Venison as well for the sake of Food as Mastery and Diversion. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. ii. xiv, in Wks. 51 He [sc. Pharaoh] seemed to take a Vanity..to try Masteries with God Allmighty. < as lemmas |
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