| 单词 | to be little mastery | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be little mastery  b.   to be little mastery: (of an action) to be easy; to be only a minor achievement. Similarly  to be great (also no, much, etc.) mastery. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1325						 (c1300)						    Chron. Robert of Gloucester 		(Calig.)	 235  				Þo þe clerc adde iseid his enchanterie..silui him let sle, ac þat was lute maistrie. c1330						 (?c1300)						    Bevis of Hampton 		(Auch.)	 1738  				Hit were no meistri me to slo For þis is þe ferþe dai agon Mete ne drinke ne bot i non. ?c1335    in  W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte 		(1904)	 109  				Þat was a gret maistri Þat þe doȝtir ber þe fader. a1450						 (c1412)						    T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 		(Harl. 4866)	 		(1897)	 1900  				Þee prince is good lord þe to; No maistri it is for þe..To be releeued. ?1456    H. at Fenne in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 II. 137  				It is no grete maistre to gader vp þat mony. 1530    Myroure Oure Ladye 		(Fawkes)	 		(1873)	  i. 17  				Yt is no more mastery to god to make of ought, & to make of nought. 1576    A. Fleming tr.  J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 17  				They [sc. duckes] go so slowely and so leasurely, that to a mans thinking it were no masteryes to take them. 1601    R. Johnson tr.  G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 98  				By these helpes it was no masterie to vanquish and subdue them. 1625    P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος 		(rev. ed.)	 548  				As Tully saith, for a man to be good in other places, is no masterie; but in Asia to lead a temperate life, is indeed praise-worthy. a1637    B. Jonson Timber 670 in  Wks. 		(1640)	 III  				It is a little Maistry to know them. 1667    J. Milton Paradise Lost  ix. 29  				Warrs, hitherto the onely Argument Heroic deem'd, chief maistrie to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights In Battels  feign'd.       View more context for this quotation < as lemmas  | 
	
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