an analytic or interpretive literary composition

an analytic or interpretive literary composition

The subject of a speech, essay, thesis, or discourse, Linguistics A word or phrase in a sentence, usually providing information from previous discourse or shared knowledge, that the rest of the sentence elaborates or comments on, A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory, adjective_ topical

lural form of essay

A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author, A testing or trial of the value or nature of a thing, verb_ put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to, make an effort or attempt, transitive verb_ To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try, obsolete To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay See Assay, intransitive verb_ To move forth, as into battle

To convert (food) into simpler chemical compounds that can be absorbed and assimilated by an organism, as by chemical and muscular action in the digestive tract, To assimilate food substances, To undergo digestion, transitive verb_ Hence_ To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook, To appropriate for strengthening and comfort, To quiet or abate, as anger or grief, noun_ A periodical containing literary abridgments or other condensed works, A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form, In law, a compilation of concise statements, summaries, or analyses of statutes or of reported cases, or of both, arranged in alphabetical order of subjects, usually with analytic subdivisions, so as to form a systematic compend of the authorities represented in the collection