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Definition of Maister
1. n. Master.
2. a. Principal; chief.
Definition of Maister
1. to gain control over [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maister
Literary usage of Maister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth as Illustrated by by Dedham Classis (Presbyterian), Richard Bancroft (1905)
"The persons that meet in this Assembly were (as these last two deponents 2 affirme)
maister Cartwright, maister Snape, maister Allen, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1920)
"To Thomas maister, my son, my coat faced wit! foynes before and fox behind.
To Peter Mayster, my son, the residue o my apparel. To my sister Marten of Rye. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"maister Johnne Moscrop askit instruments that maister William Robert- soun ...
to the said maister William to gif ..."
4. Positions by Richard Mulcaster, Robert Hebert Quick (1888)
"The causes why I medic in this place with the training maister, or rather the
training parte of the common maister, be these: first I did promise in my ..."
5. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"The maister answered, Yee must goe in heere, and tarry vntill I come backe, for
I will take the key with mee. Sn he lokked the deponer in the rounde ..."
6. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"My maister greeteth you by me, desiring you to come and speake with him. Then said
the Gentlewoman to Eush, who is your maister, and what is his will with ..."
7. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, David Jardine (1816)
"maister William Rynd sworne and re-examined, if euer he heard the earle of Cowrie
... You muit ryde to Falkland with maister Alexander my brother, and, ..."
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