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Middle English
- assaien, assaie, assay, assaye, asay, asaye, asayn, a-say, saie, sayen, saye
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman assaier; equivalent to assay + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈsæi̯ən/, /ˈasæi̯ən/, /sæi̯ən/
Verb
assayen
- To trial, test or assay:
- To trial something in order to ascertain its efficacy.
- To ascertain something's efficacy or usefulness.
- To examine or test a person's nature or intrinsic qualities.
- To taste comestibles (often in order to test them)
- To test something's or someone's battle-readiness
- To launch an attempt or effort at something.
- To look at; to research or launch an examination or inquiry.
- To perform an enterprise or mission.
- To attain knowledge via deduction, inquiry, or investigating.
- To query or ask one for assistance or help.
- To lure or draw into; to seduce or utilise temptation.
- To copulate, have sexual relations with, or have coitus.
- (rare) To have experienced something.
- (rare) To utilise a field of knowledge.
- (rare) To travel on the ocean.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
References
- “assaien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-17.
- “saien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-17.