magistery

American  

[maj-uh-ster-ee, -stuh-ree] / ˈmædʒ əˌstɛr i, -stə ri /

noun

plural

magisteries

1. an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.

2. Obsolete. mastership.

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magistery British  

/ -trɪ, ˈmædʒɪstərɪ /

noun

1. an agency or substance, such as the philosopher's stone, believed to transmute other substances

2. any substance capable of healing

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Etymology

Origin of magistery

1490–1500; < Latin magisterium, equivalent to magister master + -ium -ium

Example Sentences

He answered, 'Their writings are only to be understood by the adepts, without whom no student can prepare this magistery.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

The great poet has authority, magistery, masterdom, seated in his high spirit; and when he chooses to put forth his power, we bow before him, or stoop our heads from the descending bolt.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various