maistrie

English

Noun

maistrie (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Mastery.

Anagrams

• Emiratis, air times, airtimes, seriatim

Middle English

Noun

maistrie

1. a masterly operation; a feat
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     I wol doon a maistrie 'er I go.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Old French

Etymology

maistre +‎ -ie.

Noun

maistrie oblique singular, f (oblique plural maistries, nominative singular maistrie, nominative plural maistries)

1. strength
2. force
3. authority
4. wisdom
5. mastery (expertness)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (maistrie)
• mestrie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub