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. 1382 Wyclif Ex. xvi. 31 The taast of it as of tryed floure with hony. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 51 Take fayre y-tryid ȝolkys Raw, & Sugre, an pouder Gyngere. 1611 Cotgr., Argerite, the (Siluer-coloured) foame of tried lead. 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xv. 75 Legs of Mutton..with tried sewet or butter. 1639 T. 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. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 126 Treuþe is tresour triedest on eorþe. c 1400 Destr. Troy 1840 Fro Priam, full prist,..That in Troy truly is a triet kyng. Ibid. 10842 A tryet ost Of grekes..were gedrit. 1581 A. Hall Iliad v. 97 Dame Iuno of the tryed horsse in hand doth take the raynes. |
† b. As n. Distinguished one. Obs.
| c 1400 Destr. Troy 13791 To the toumbe of þat tried truly ho yode. |
3. a. Proved or tested by experience or examination.
| c 1412 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2097 Deth hath but smal consideracioun Vnto þe vertuous,..No more..Than to a vicious maistir losel tried. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 502/2 Tryyd,..probatus, examinatus. 1508 Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 513 Cankrit Caym, tryit trowane, Tutiuillus. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 100 Choose foorth certeine persons of a tried conuersation. 1604 E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies ii. vii. 95 It is approoved by many tryed experiences. 1724 De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 277 He [was] an old tried soldier. 1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 17 My design is..to promote tried experiments. 1841 W. Spalding Italy III. 82 Public men of tried abilities. |
b. Phr. tried and true, proved reliable by experience.
| 1954 W. 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. 1967 Listener 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. 1979 Tucson 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.
| c 1400 Destr. 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. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Peter iv. 12 That thing..whyche wente long ago before in the triedly proued prophetes. 1557 Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 141 So triedly did he treade..That fortune found no place to geue him once a check. |