Word: magistery Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *méǵh₂s From Middle English magisteri, magistery (“academic degree of Master”), from Latin magisterium (“office of a chief, director, president, or superintendent; teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church; authoritative statement”) (compare Late Latin magisterium (“philosopher’s stone”)), from magister (“master (title for a person in authority or one having a licence from a university to teach liberal arts and philosophy); teacher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns, sometimes denoting groups and offices). By surface analysis, magister + -y. Doublet of magisterium. Cognate with French magistère, Old French magisteire. Pronunciation: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstəɹi/, /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹi/, /ˈmæd͡ʒəˌstəɹi/ 1. 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. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable Example: [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; […] Example: […] I have been here long enough, if I were matter capable thereof, to be made the Philoſophers Stone, to be converted from VVater to Povvder, vvhich is the vvhole Magiſtery: I have been beſides, ſo long upon the Anvil, that methinks I am grovvn malleable, and hammer-proof: I am ſo habituated to hardſhip. 2. The product of such a transformation. Labels: also, countable, figuratively, historical, obsolete, uncountable 3. A fine substance deposited by precipitation, formerly applied to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable Example: magistery of bismuth (BiONO₃·H₂O) Example: I am apt to think, that either Simples, or cheap, or unelaborate Galenical Mixtures, may furnih us vvith Specificks, that may perform much more than Chymiſts are vvont to think, and poſſibly be preferable to many of their coſtly Magiſteries, Quint-eſſences and Elixirs. […] The more Judicious of the Chymiſts themſelves do ſeveral of them novv acknovvledge, that the bare reducing of Pearls to fine Povvder, affords a Medicine much richer in the Vertues of the Pearls, then the Magiſtery, prepar'd by diſſolving them in acid Spirits, and precipitating them vvith Oyl of Tartar, and aftervvards ſcrupulously edulcorating them. 4. A concentrated extract of a substance. Labels: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable 5. An art or a skill. Labels: countable, obsolete 6. Synonym of magistracy (“the dignity or office of a magistrate; the collective body of magistrates”). Labels: countable, obsolete 7. A medicine prepared for a specific use. Labels: countable, obsolete 8. The quality possessed by a master; authority, mastership, mastery; also, the exercise of authority. Labels: obsolete, uncountable 9. Synonym of magisterium (“the teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church”). Labels: obsolete, uncountable