Lexicographical Neighbors of Maistered
Literary usage of Maistered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... his causes, and effects; but also by making known his enemie vice, which must
be destroyed, and his combersome seruant Passion, which must be maistered; ..."
2. Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang (1905)
"... fed upon by rage," if beaten in any little question of learning, than the
boy; " if fn any match at Ball I had been maistered by one of my playfellows. ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... to him leaping light, His cursed hand withheld, and maistered his might.
By the might of Britomart, ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But now their characters depraved bin, By them that would make gain of others sin.
And now hath wrong so maistered the right, That they live best that on ..."
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