mayster
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mayster (plural maysters)
- 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
[edit]Noun
[edit]mayster (plural maysters)
- Alternative form of maister