Definition of essay

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Essay (n.) 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..

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Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay..
Polemic :: Polemic (a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology..
Tentative :: Tentative (a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Essaying :: Essaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essa.
Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial; attempt; essay.
Didactical :: Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays..
Critique :: Critique (n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason..
Scholarly :: Scholarly (a.) Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique..
Touch :: Touch (v.) A slight and brief essay.
Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay..
Tractate :: Tractate (n.) A treatise; a tract; an essay.
Taste :: Taste (v. t.) To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
Apologetical :: Apologetical (a.) Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay..
Essays :: Essays (pl. ) of Essa.
Offer :: Offer (v. i.) To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at.
Prune :: Prune (v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay..
Queck :: Queck (v. i.) A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move..
Paper :: Paper (n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society..
Design :: Design (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral..
Prove :: Prove (v. i.) To make trial; to essay.
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