Definition
To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.
Origins
From stand (“to undergo, withstand”) + trial.
In Context
- "Nay, it ſeems, / My Boy has charg'd thee vvith't, before his yeares / Could vvarrant his ability in Combate, / And ſo is fallen; Or thou, not daring ſtand / Tryall in ſuch a cauſe, by treachery / Haſt cut him off; And com'ſt to make thy peace: / Preſuming on my Poverty, vvith money."
- "At a towne meting in Rye March 1, 1699–1700, the towne hath past a vote that they will not stand tryal with Mr. Woodbridg. At the same towne meting the towne hath by vote agreed that what shall be wanting of the mony that is due to Mʳ Woodbridg from the several persons that hath not yet paid the Remainder of the mony the town will make it up by way of supply in the next towne rate."
- "Those at a distance cannot well conceive how contemptible our Church is abroad, and that owing to the unworthy, immoral, and negligent lives of the generality of our Missionarys, several of which have come over to us, because they could not stand tryal among the dissenters, or have lived too loosely among them."