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Definition of Essayed
1. essay [v] - See also: essay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Essayed
Literary usage of Essayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... The Heart to speak in vain essayed, Nor could his purpose reach — His will
nor voice nor tongue obeyed, Hi. ..."
2. Camera (1907)
"... that he had given just a little attention to the study of drapery, or rather
that he had not essayed it at all and had left the innocents unadorned. ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Declare what dwelling or what region holds "Anchises, for whose sake we twain
essayed "Yon passage over the wide streams of hell." And briefly thus the hero ..."
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