archmaster

plural archmasters

1. rareA chief and superior master.

   The true archmaster can teach, demonstrate, distribute, describe, and judge all natural things.

   2009, Philip Ashley Fanning, Isaac Newton and the Transmutation of Alchemy: An Alternative View of the Scientific Revolution, North Atlantic Books, page 75

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   It is replete with interesting information of old time necromancers, constructors of automata, good stories of contemporary magicians, exposés of Marabout miracles, and last but not least the fascinating adventures of Houdin himself, — the archmaster of modern magic.

   1903, The Open Court, Volume 17, Open Court Publishing Company, page 733

   His reputation as archmaster in deception not only makes his failure more amusing in itself, but makes it appear as the almost direct consequence of his last piece of cunning.

   1932, Germaine Dempster, Dramatic Irony in Chaucer, Stanford University Press, page 312