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professor

mastery

UK /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/ US /pɹəˈfɛs.ɚ/noun

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Two young men … were one euening at a common Inne … where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals … Nowe as diuers guests … came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who … very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.