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Definition of Meister
1. one who is knowledgeable about something specified [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meister
Literary usage of Meister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"JOSEPH meister. Yes . . . PASTEUR. You ought to like it very much . . . and you
must learn to write very well ... so as to be able to write to me . ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1887)
"With this species I have united Burim-i.*t<-,-¡ Lee., founded on smaller specimens.
The name was given under the supposition that Bur- meister had ..."
3. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey (1909)
"In the meantime, all that I have heard of these plays has excited little wish to
become acquainted with such extraor- 1 From "Wilhelm meister. ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"One of the profoundest thinkers of all the Christian centuries was the Dominican
meister Eckhart, the true father of German speculative mysticism. ..."
5. New Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1895)
"I. —WILHELM meister. SIR JOHN SEELEY, who has written of Goethe with an intimate
knowledge of his mind, even now rare among our countrymen, has described ..."
6. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"The greatest figure in the whole movement is meister Eckhart, who was a Dominican
teacher and died in the prison of his order. Although the Thomistic system ..."
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