essay
noun
a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
have essayed
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present perfectof essay.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His last two albums have essayed a music of extraordinary intimacy and strangeness, schooled in the last century's avant gardes but with baritone phantoms of the familiar Scott still in attendance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Several writers have essayed to depict the Philippine native character, but with only partial success.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
You inquire if the doctrine we have essayed to establish, be not dangerous.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh
Nowhere is the conservatism of the Egyptians more clearly displayed than in the tenacity with which they clung to the old forms of the theology, such as we have essayed to describe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
Had she loved him, or not known that he was her lover, Agatha would soon have essayed the womanly part of comforter, but now timidity restrained her.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
