master prizeł (masterpriz)

A masterly or commanding stroke; a move, stroke, or game worthy of a master hand or mind. She hath play'd her master - prize , a rare one. Fletcher, Pilgrim, iii. 4. There is some notable master prize of roguery This drum strikes up for. Middle ton, Game at Che , iii. 1. mastership (mas'ter-ship), n. [=OFries. mas terskip , mester skip = D. me esters chap = MLG. mēsterschop = OHG. meisterscaft, MHG. G. meisters chaft = Sw. mästerskap = Dan. mester skab ; as master1 + -ship .] 1. The state or office of a master; a master's position or rank: as, the mastership of a school, or of a ve el. Yet these conscientious Men wanted not boldne to seize into their hands, or not unwillingly to acCollegiate Masterships in the Universities. cept, Milton , Hist. England, iii. The kinds of this seignoury, Seneca makes two: the one,.. propriety power or command; the other,. or mastership . Raleigh , Hist. World, I. ix. § 1. 2. Masterly skill or capacity; superiority; mas tery. A masterle man? He had better not to speak to me, unle he is in love with gaol and gallows. Kingsley, Westward Ho, vii. In English society of a far later time we find "masterle men" to be a name of thieves, beggars, and peace-breakers. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 30. 2. Free from mastery or ownership; liberated from or not subject to a master; having unrestrained liberty. Ther sholde ye se stedes and horse renne maister les , their reynes trailynge vndir fote, wher-of the sadeles were all blody of knyghtes that ther-ynne hadde be slayn. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 211. What mean these masterle and gory swords? Shak., R. and J., v. 3. 142. 3. That cannot be mastered; ungovernable; beyond control. Such vast heath-fires are lighted up that they often get to a masterle head. Gilbert White . IMG:content-0308.png:[blocks in formation]