Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not essayed; not attempted; not subjected to assay or trial; untested.

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Examples

  • But here, as we are about to attempt a description hitherto unassayed either in prose or verse, we think proper to invoke the assistance of certain aerial beings, who will, we doubt not, come kindly to our aid on this occasion.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Mother was almost equally bulky, with an unassayed number of garments, but over them all she wore a still respectable Raglan town coat.

    The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • But here, as we are about to attempt a description hitherto unassayed either in prose or verse, we think proper to invoke the assistance of certain aërial beings, who will, we doubt not, come kindly to our aid on this occasion.

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • This sum so wrought with the slavish minds of men, that no art was left unassayed to take me: they searched all houses, all hackney-coaches that passed by night; and did all that avarice could inspire to take me, but all in vain: at last, this glorious sum so dazzled the mind of Madam the

    Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664

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