make trial of

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Meaning: (idiomatic,archaic)Tocheckthequality,reliability,performanceorgenuinenessof (something or someone).Synonyms:assay,prove,put to the test,test,try,try out1587,Raphael Holinshed, et al,Holinshed’s Chronicles‎[1], volume 2, London: Henry Denham, page315:[…]he supposed it better, rather to craue the doubtfull mercie of his lord, than tomake triall ofthe earle of Murreis certeine reuenge.1675,Robert Boyle,Experimental Notes of the Mechanical Origine or Production of Fixtness,Oxford: R. Davis, Section 2, Experiment 9, p. 66,[2][…]I thought among other things of the following Experiment, andmade Trial ofit.1791,William Gilpin,Remarks on Forest Scenery‎[3], London: R. Blamire,Book 1, Section 4, pp. 55-56:It [lime] is the wood, which the ingeniousGibbonused, aftermaking trial ofseveral kinds, as the most proper for that curious sculpture, which adorns some of the old houses of our nobility.1886,Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 9, inKidnapped‎[4], New York: Scribner, page87:[…]he stood up in the midst with his face to the door, and drawing his great sword,made trial ofthe room he had to wield it in.1954,J. R. R. Tolkien,The Fellowship of the Ring,New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 2001, Book 2, Chapter 10, p. 415,[5]Will you not at least let memake trial ofmy plan?

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