masterdom

English

Etymology

From master +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːstədəm/

Noun

masterdom (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Dominion; rule, supremacy. [from 15th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.2:
      With cruell chaufe their courages they whet, / The maysterdome of each by force to gaine […].

References
  • masterdom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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