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单词 masterfast
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masterfastadj.

Forms: see master n.1 and fast adj.; also 1500s maysterfest.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: master n.1, fast adj.
Etymology: < master n.1 + fast adj.
Obsolete.
Bound or indentured to a master; obliged to serve a master. Also figurative.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [adjective] > bound to a master
masterfast1469
thirled1567
1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 548 I wyll not make me mastyrfast wyth my lord of Norffolk.
c1520 Bk. Mayd Emlyn 167 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) IV. 88 He that is maysterfast..dare not ronne and playe.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hii To day maysterfest, to morowe he hath no holde.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 78v Whoso hath ones marryed a wife, is..in maner half maisterfast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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