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Definition of Assayings
1. assaying [n] - See also: assaying
Literary usage of Assayings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"... between my knees down to a half-inch size and repeatedly quartering them down
to a small sample for assayings to get a proper average of the ore. ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1809)
"... fierce assayings are resisted by strength, by courage, or by politic : the
enemie is pursued, and the pursuers neuer giue ouer till they haue him in ..."
3. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1841)
"Without this we shall not be free from those assayings of pride and creature
sufficiency which tend, most of all things, to keep the Spirit of God out of ..."
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