Syn. -- Attempt; trial; endeavor; effort; tract; treatise; dissertation; disquisition.
Es*say" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Essayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Essaying.] [F. essayer. See Essay, n.] 1. To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.
What marvel if I thus essay to sing?
Byron.
Essaying nothing she can not perform.
Emerson.
A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible.
J. C. Shairp.