Synonyms:
command, control, mastery
Meaning: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"
Synonyms:
domination, mastery, supremacy
Meaning: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
Usage examples
It gave the German plan with a mastery of detail, shrewd prophecy, and earnest warning.
The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity.
And for the first time she realised the power and mastery of that eager and far too hungry face.
"Once the males were all-powerful, but ages ago the females, little by little, assumed the mastery.
We cannot impress too thoroughly upon you the necessity for a real working mastery of these principles.
Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken.
He would get it;--as long as Alice had a pound over which he could obtain mastery by any act or violence within his compass.
But perhaps, after all, the thing which gained and fixed his mastery over his fellows was to a great degree his gigantic stature and strength.
They are, likewise, distinguished by originality of treatment, complete mastery of the material used, as well as by genuine beauty of rhyme and rhythm.
With your permission, my dear,' he added, turning untarnishably clear childlike eyes on Sheila, 'I will take all risks--even to the foot of the gibbet: accessory, Danton, AFTER the fact.' And so direct and cloudless was his gaze that Sheila tried in vain to evade it and to catch a glimpse of Danton's small agate-like eyes, now completely under mastery, and awaiting confidently the meeting with her own.