mayster

English

Noun

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

Noun

mayster (plural maysters)

1. Alternative form of maister