Obs. rare. [app. aphetic f. ATTEMPT sb.] = ATTEMPT sb.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxxvi. § 6. By the issues of all tempts they found no certaine conclusion but this.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VIII. xxxvii. Because Gods Æqual, Serpents tempts are quell’d.
a. 1668. Lassels, Voy. Italy (1670), I. 114. Which [Castle] staveth off all tempts of strangers.
