essay
verb/eˈseɪ/
/eˈseɪ/
(literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they essay | /eˈseɪ/ /eˈseɪ/ |
| he / she / it essays | /eˈseɪz/ /eˈseɪz/ |
| past simple essayed | /eˈseɪd/ /eˈseɪd/ |
| past participle essayed | /eˈseɪd/ /eˈseɪd/ |
| -ing form essaying | /eˈseɪɪŋ/ /eˈseɪɪŋ/ |
- essay something to try to do somethingWord Originlate 15th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘test the quality of’): alteration of assay, by association with Old French essayer, based on late Latin exagium ‘weighing’, from the base of exigere ‘ascertain, weigh’; the noun (late 16th cent.) is from Old French essai ‘trial’.
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