try titles

verb

To battle.

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Meanings

verbtry titles (third-person singular simple present tries titles, present participle trying titles, simple past and past participle tried titles)

present singular third person tries titles · participle present trying titles · participle past tried titles · past tried titles

  1. datedTo battle.

    Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet.

    1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450
    1 more example

    If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.

    1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4
  2. To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office.
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Chicago

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