assay
verb (used with object)
to examine or analyze.
had assayed
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past perfectof assay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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That night the boy came back to report that the sample had assayed 70% ambergris.
From Time Magazine Archive
When these two marshals had assayed in all places to find passage and could find none, they returned again to the king, and shewed how they could find no passage in no place.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
When these two marshals had assayed in all places to find passage and could find none, they returned again to the King, and shewed how they could find no passage in no place.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
This is the ore we have not had assayed yet.
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
Indeed, having gained a pretext by her ministrations to Lizzy when overcome by the suggestions of the dog sermon, Mrs Catanach had assayed an approach to her mother, and not without success.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
