1. attempt, endeavor; composition, article. attempt; test, experiment. essay\es*say"\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. essayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. essaying.] [f. essayer. see:
essay, n.].
2. 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? essaying nothing she can not perform. a danger lest the young enthusiast should essay the impossible. c. shairp.
3. to test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. see:
assay. [obs.]essay \es"say\ , n.; pl. essays (#). [f. essai, fr. l. exagium a weighing, weight, balance; ex out + agere to drive, do; cf. examen, exagmen, a means of weighing, a weighing, the tongue of a balance, exigere to drive out, examine, weigh, gr. 'exa`gion a weight, 'exagia`zein to examine, 'exa`gein to drive out, export. see:
agent, and cf. exact, examine, assay.].
4. an effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend. "the essay at organization." arnold.
5. (lit.) a composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
6. an assay. see:
assay, n. [obs.].
7. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
8. A composition treating of any particular subject; usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.
9. An assay.
10. See Assay, n.
11. 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.
12. To test the value and purity of ; to assay.
13. See Assay. a tentative attempt an analytic or interpretive literary composition.
14. 1. An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject written by a student. We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown and about his place in it.
15. An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject that is written by a writer for publication. Thomas Malthus's essay on population. to attempt to do something. Analytic, interpretative, or critical literary composition, usually dealing with its subject from a limited and often personal point of view. Flexible and versatile, the essay was perfected by Michel de Montaigne, who chose the name essai to emphasize that his compositions were "attempts" to express his thoughts and experiences. The essay has been the vehicle of literary and social criticism for some, while for others it could serve semipolitical, nationalistic, or polemical purposes and could have a detached, playful, earnest, or bitter tone.
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