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tried, ppl. a.|traɪd|
[f. try v. + -ed1.]
1. Separated from the dross or refuse; of metals: purified, refined; of fat: rendered, clarified; of an egg-yolk: separated from the white; of flour, etc.: sifted, bolted, fine. Mostly Obs.
tried out, said of a whale the blubber of which has been cut off, melted down, and run into casks.
13..K. Alis. 828 (Bodl. MS.) Riche rede Itried golde. 13..Coer de L. 6342 Tryyd sylvyr and tresore fyn. 1382Wyclif Ex. xvi. 31 The taast of it as of tryed floure with hony. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 51 Take fayre y-tryid ȝolkys Raw, & Sugre, an pouder Gyngere. 1611Cotgr., Argerite, the (Siluer-coloured) foame of tried lead. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xv. 75 Legs of Mutton..with tried sewet or butter. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 304 Take..of old tryed hogs grease one pound.
†2.
a. Chosen, select, choice; excellent. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1317 He trussed hem in his tresorye in a tryed place. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 126 Treuþe is tresour triedest on eorþe. c1400Destr. Troy 1840 Fro Priam, full prist,..That in Troy truly is a triet kyng. Ibid. 10842 A tryet ost Of grekes..were gedrit. 1581A. Hall Iliad v. 97 Dame Iuno of the tryed horsse in hand doth take the raynes.
†b. As n. Distinguished one. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 13791 To the toumbe of þat tried truly ho yode.
3. a. Proved or tested by experience or examination.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2097 Deth hath but smal consideracioun Vnto þe vertuous,..No more..Than to a vicious maistir losel tried. c1440Promp. Parv. 502/2 Tryyd,..probatus, examinatus. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 513 Cankrit Caym, tryit trowane, Tutiuillus. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 100 Choose foorth certeine persons of a tried conuersation. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies ii. vii. 95 It is approoved by many tryed experiences. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 277 He [was] an old tried soldier. 1760R. Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 17 My design is..to promote tried experiments. 1841W. Spalding Italy III. 82 Public men of tried abilities.
b. Phr. tried and true, proved reliable by experience.
1954W. Faulkner Fable 352 His enslavement to the demonic progeny of his own mechanical curiosity, from which he will emancipate himself by that one ancient tried-and-true method by which slaves have always freed themselves: by inculcating their masters with the slaves' own vices. 1967Listener 6 Apr. 474/3 Miss Aukin had had the good sense to use the tried and true concealment gambit by which eventually two young officers, bent on cuckolding a greengrocer, were compelled to hide in the same grandfather clock. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 47/1 A beautifully made ‘period’ movie, written and directed by tried-and-true Michael Crichton.
Hence † ˈtriedly adv. Obs., in a tried manner; choicely; experiencedly.
c1400Destr. Troy 3054 Hir tethe þat tryetly were set, Alse qwyte & qwem as any qwalle bon. Ibid. 10583 Þai tild vp a toure, triedly wroght. 14..Langland's P. Pl. B. Prol. 14, I seigh a toure on a toft trielich [MS. O. triedliche] ymaked. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Peter iv. 12 That thing..whyche wente long ago before in the triedly proued prophetes. 1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 141 So triedly did he treade..That fortune found no place to geue him once a check. |
