Tried

ppl. a. [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 Gray, Compl. Horsem., 304. Take … of old tryed hogs grease one pound.

  † 2.  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 sb. Distinguished one. Obs.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 13791. To the toumbe of þat tried truly ho yode.

  3.  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.

  Hence † Triedly 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.