287: essay Sep 21, 2015
Essay's have often inspired fear, or nervousness, though the word has
denoted different things over time, The rare verb comes from the late
15th century as a verb meaning, "test the quality of" alteration of the
word, 'assay', which is related to the Old French word, 'essayer', based
on late Latin 'exagium', meaning ‘weighing’, as one might do for
options. The noun is from Old French 'essai', meaning ‘trial.’