Definition of Past master

1. Noun. Someone who was formerly a master.

Generic synonyms: Master, Professional

2. Noun. Someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity.
Generic synonyms: Expert

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

past
past(a)
past-master
past-participle
past-pointing
past-tense
past anterior
past continuous
past historic
past historic tense
past imperfect tense
past it
past iterative
past master
past paper
past papers
past participial
past participle
past participles
past perfect
past perfect continuous
past perfect progressive
past perfect tense
past progressive
past progressive tense
past simple
past tense
past tenses

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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