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assay

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"Chemical analysis"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈæseɪ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aassyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. analyze (chemical substances)

Word origin

From Middle English assay (noun) and assayen (verb), from Anglo-Norman assai (noun) and Anglo-Norman assaier (verb), from Old French essai. Doublet of essay.

Used in a sentence

  • “I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.”
  • “This cannot be, by no assay of reason.”
  • “Through many hard assayes which did betide.”

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