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make trial of (三人称単数 現在形 makes trial of, 現在分詞 making trial of, 過去形および過去分詞形 made trial of)

1. (idiomatic, archaic) To check the quality, reliability, performance or genuineness of (something または someone).

   Synonyms: assay, prove, put to the test, test, try, try out

   • 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: Henry Denham, Volume 2, p. 315,^[1]

     […] 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,^[2]

     […] I thought among other things of the following Experiment, and made Trial of it.

   • 1791, William Gilpin, Remarks on Forest Scenery, London: R. Blamire, Book 1, Section 4, pp. 55-56,^[3]

     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.

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, New York: Scribner, Chapter 9, p. 87,^[4]

     […] he stood up in the midst with his face to the door, and drawing his great sword, made trial of the 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 me make trial of my plan?