make trial of
verbDefinitions
To check the quality, reliability, performance or genuineness of (something or someone).
- […] he supposed it better, rather to craue the doubtfull mercie of his lord, than to make triall of the 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, […] I thought among other things of the following Experiment, and made Trial of it.
- It [lime] is the wood, which the ingenious Gibbon used, after making trial of several kinds, as the most proper for that curious sculpture, which adorns some of the old houses of our nobility.
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