ppl. a. [f. ATTEMPT v. + -ED.] Tried, essayed, endeavored; assailed, attacked; also, tempted, tested, put to trial (obs.).

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1513.  Bradshaw, St. Werburge (1848), 197. The erle sore attempted by his gostly ennemy.

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1535.  Hen. VIII., in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. lxiii. 155. By long attempted experience in searching the truth.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 46. Lewd lusts, and late attempted sin.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. (1851), 271. To secure and protect the weaknesse of any attempted chastity.

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1838.  Arnold, Hist. Rome (1848), I. 151. The charge of treason and attempted tyranny.

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