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try titles

verb

Definitions

  1. To battle.

    • Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet.
    • If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.

  2. To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA