Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Mastery; superiority; art. See
mastery .
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- noun Archaic form of
master .
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Examples
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Prioris presumably held that position for at least four more years; the chronicler Jean d'Auton placed him, again identified as maistre de chapelle, with Louis XII at the siege of Genoa in April 1507.
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Crecquillon is named as ‘maistre de la chapelle’ three times and had apparently succeeded Adrian Thibault dit Pickart at some time after August 1538.
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Although this citation has generally been taken as evidence that Prioris was still the king's maistre de chapelle at the time, Vatican documents refer to Hylaire Bernoneau as ‘magister capelle Christianissimi francorum regis’ as early as 1510.
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In Guillaume Crétin's famous lament on the death of Jean Braconnier, dit ‘Lourdault’ – who died in January, 1512 – the poet called upon ‘nostre bon pere et maistre Prioris’ to add his voice to the lament by composing a Ne recorderis.
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Note also that Aldobrandino was discussing only the male child here, since although girls often received some instruction, they would not have gone to "l'escole" to study under a "maistre." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Soalhat's doctoral thesis, published as Les idées de maistre Alebrand de Florence sur la puériculture (Paris, 1908), provides a brief descriptive overview of the material in the chapters used here. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Les idées de maistre Alébrand de Florence sur la puériculture.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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I did gret besynesse, for to have lerned that craft: but the maistre tolde me, that he had made a vow to his God, to teche it to no creature, but only to his eldeste sone.
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I did gret besynesse, for to have lerned that craft: but the maistre tolde me, that he had made a vow to his God, to teche it to no creature, but only to his eldeste sone.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I am prester mast (Prestre mace, maistre passe.), Prish, Brum!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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