assayen
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman assaier; equivalent to assay + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
assayen
- To trial, test or assay:
- 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
Conjugation of assayen (weak in -ed)
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.
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