magistery
A pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into anotherA pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into another; also, a substance such as a philosopher's stone able to turn one substance into another.
Meaning
9 senses(also, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable)A pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into another; also, a substance such as a philosopher's stone able to turn one substance into another.
(countable, historical, uncountable)A fine substance deposited by precipitation, formerly applied to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions.
magistery of bismuth (BiONO₃·H₂O)
(also, countable, figuratively, historical, obsolete, uncountable)The product of such a transformation.
(countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable)A concentrated extract of a substance.
(countable, obsolete)An art or a skill.
(countable, obsolete)Synonym of magistracy (“the dignity or office of a magistrate; the collective body of magistrates”).
(countable, obsolete)A medicine prepared for a specific use.
(obsolete, uncountable)The quality possessed by a master; authority, mastership, mastery; also, the exercise of authority.
(obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”).
Translations
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Synonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable