mayster

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Noun

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mayster (plural maysters)

  1. Obsolete form of master.
    • 1542, Robert Burdet, “The Fawcon”, in A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women, London: Rycharde Banckes:
      At Chrystes death, whan the Apostles all / Theyr mayster dyd leaue, throughe mutabylytie / Men were founde lyght, and trundlynge as a ball / In them was no fayth, but infydelytye
    • 1561, John Awdelay, The fraternitye of vacabondes:
      My maysters, ich am an old man, and halfe blinde, []
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 271:
      Pilot [] / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The mayſters of his long experiment, / And to them does the ſteddy helme apply [].

Middle English

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Noun

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mayster (plural maysters)

  1. Alternative form of maister