Magistery

Quick meaning: Magistery is a noun meaning The product of such a transformation.

Meaning

The product of such a transformation.

More Meanings

1. A fine substance deposited by precipitation, formerly applied to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions.
2. A concentrated extract of a substance.
3. An art or a skill.
4. Synonym of magistracy (“the dignity or office of a magistrate; the collective body of magistrates”).
5. A medicine prepared for a specific use.
6. The quality possessed by a master; authority, mastership, mastery; also, the exercise of authority.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

magistery of bismuth (BiONO₃·H₂O)

Some elements were conquerors, some conquered; there existed preparations which possessed the power of changing the whole of a body of a substance of another kind: these were called magisteries.

[T]hey made proofe of the ſaid flowers dried, and this high magiſterie they found, That being beaten to pouder, they cured thoſe of the bloudie flix,^([sic – meaning flux]) vvho lay at the very point of death upon that diſeaſe; […]

This wanton Information being over, Daphnis, who had ſtill a Childish Pastorall mind, would presently be gone, and run up to Chloe, to have an experiment with her, how much he had profited by that magistery, as if indeed he had bin afraid lest staying but a little longer, he could forget to do his trick.

Word Forms

• magisteries

Synonyms for magistery

Depending on context, synonyms include magistracy, magisterium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include magisteriology, magisterium, magicology, mystagogy, craft, mystoriography.

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