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Definition of Essayers
1. essayer [n] - See also: essayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Essayers
Literary usage of Essayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies: From the by Robers Ruding (1840)
"These essayers were persons deputed by the king to survey the mints, ...
The essayers, as surveyors of the mint, I presume, never existed but in the ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Therefore, when the essayers do not know the" proportion of these two ...
When essayers want to know early the proportion of gold and silver in a mass, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... they receive in the chemical curriculum of most institutions; the supply of
competent analysts and essayers cannot be too great. ..."
4. The New Fiction: And Other Essays on Literary Subjects by Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Not that the essayers of the political novel who have appeared in the course of
the intervening half- century have been much more fortunate in their era. ..."
5. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... the bold essayers of unknown oceans. But while Vasquez di Gama found out an
accessible though circuitous course, from the shores of the northern ..."
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