magistery

[ maj-uh-ster-ee, -stuh-ree ]

noun,plural mag·is·ter·ies.
  1. an agency or substance, as in alchemy, to which faculties of healing, transformation, etc., are ascribed.

  2. Obsolete. mastership.

Origin of magistery

1
1490–1500; <Latin magisterium, equivalent to magistermaster + -ium-ium

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magistery

/ (ˈmædʒɪstərɪ, -trɪ) /


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

  2. any substance capable of healing

Origin of magistery

1
C16: from Medieval Latin magisterium, from Latin: mastery, from magister master

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