archmaster

English

Etymology

From arch- +‎ master.

Noun

archmaster (plural archmasters)

1. (rare) A chief and superior master.
   • 1903, The Open Court, Volume 17‎, Open Court Publishing Company, page 733:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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