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Definition of Past master
1. Noun. Someone who was formerly a master.
2. Noun. Someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity.
Definition of Past master
1. Noun. (freemasonry) Someone who has previously been a master at a given lodge. ¹
2. Noun. One who has an extremely high level of ability or knowledge within an area of achievement or expertise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Past Master
Literary usage of Past master
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ovid: Selected Works, with Notes and Vocabulary by Ovid (1900)
"Add to this the ceaseless, swift gallop of his lines, of which mention has already
been made, and it will be seen that Ovid is a past master in the use of ..."
2. The Freemason's Monitor: Or Illustrations of Masonry by Thomas Smith Webb, Robert Morris (1859)
"He must be a past master to be eligible to this office, and his covenant as Grand
Master is an extension of that of a past master. ..."
3. The Freemasons' Library and General Ahiman Rezon: Containing a Delineation by Samuel Cole (1817)
"No master can, however, obtain the honorary de- ree of past master in any other
lodge, than that of which s is a working member, except in a chapter of RA ..."
4. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923 by Frank Marshall Eastman (1922)
"In Freemasonry Judge Ross is a past master of York Lodge, No. 256, Free and
Accepted Masons ; past high priest of Howell Chapter, No. ..."
5. Proceedings by Freemasons Canada. Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter (1898)
"In the course of a thoughtful address the Grand High Priest said : '' The Past
Master of a Chapter is only a quasi past master : the true and legitimate ..."
6. The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical by Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905)
"... of Howard County, who was a celebrated civil service engineer and past master
of the Masons. Ann Stockett, of Dr. Thomas Noble—Rhoderick Warfield, ..."
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