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==Origin==
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''assai'', ''essai''
[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''assai'', ''essai''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
According to [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=assay Etymology Online] the verb assay, at least since the 13th century meant "to try, endeavor, strive; test the [[quality]] of," from Anglo-Fr. assaier, from assai (n.), from O.Fr. essai "trial". And the noun assay thus means "trial, test of quality, test of [[character]]," mid-14c., from Anglo-Fr. assai and [[Meaning]] "[[analysis]]" is from late 14c. For assay of currency coins this literally meant analysis of the [[purity]] of the gold or silver or whatever precious component used to [[represent]] the true value of the coin. This might have [[translated]] later (possibly after 14th century) into a generalized [[meaning]] of analysis e.g. of important/principle component of a target inside a mixture such as active ingredient of a drug inside the inert excipients in a pharmacological formulation which originally used to be measured by its actual [[action]] on an [[organism]] (e.g. lethal dose or inhibitory dose).
According to [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=assay Etymology Online] the verb assay, at least since the 13th century meant "to try, endeavor, strive; test the [[quality]] of," from Anglo-Fr. assaier, from assai (n.), from O.Fr. essai "trial". And the noun assay thus means "trial, test of quality, test of [[character]]," mid-14c., from Anglo-Fr. assai and [[Meaning]] "[[analysis]]" is from late 14c. For assay of currency coins this literally meant analysis of the [[purity]] of the gold or silver or whatever precious component used to [[represent]] the true value of the coin. This might have [[translated]] later (possibly after 14th century) into a generalized [[meaning]] of analysis e.g. of important/principle component of a target inside a mixture such as active ingredient of a drug inside the inert excipients in a pharmacological formulation which originally used to be measured by its actual [[action]] on an [[organism]] (e.g. lethal dose or inhibitory dose).