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Endeavor

Endeavor \En*deav"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endeavored; p. pr. & vb. n. Endeavoring.] [OE. endevor; pref. en- + dever, devoir, duty, F. devoir: cf. F. se mettre en devoir de faire quelque chose to try to do a thing, to go about it. See Devoir, Debt.] [Written also endeavour.] To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects.
--Ld. Chatham.

To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to the fulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] ``A just man that endeavoreth himself to leave all wickedness.''
--Latimer.

Endeavor

Endeavor \En*deav"or\, v. i. To exert one's self; to work for a certain end.

And such were praised who but endeavored well.
--Pope.

Note: Usually with an infinitive; as, to endeavor to outstrip an antagonist.

He had . . . endeavored earnestly to do his duty.
--Prescott.

Syn: To attempt; try; strive; struggle; essay; aim; seek.

Endeavor

Endeavor \En*deav"or\, n. [Written also endeavour.] An exertion of physical or intellectual strength toward the attainment of an object; a systematic or continuous attempt; an effort; a trial.

To employ all my endeavor to obey you.
--Sir P. Sidney.

To do one's endeavor, to do one's duty; to put forth strenuous efforts to attain an object; -- a phrase derived from the Middle English phrase ``to do one's dever'' (duty). ``Mr. Prynne proceeded to show he had done endeavor to prepare his answer.''
--Fuller.

Syn: Essay; trial; effort; exertion. See Attempt.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
endeavor

early 15c., "pains taken to attain an object," literally "in duty," from phrase put (oneself) in dever "make it one's duty" (a partial translation of Old French mettre en deveir "put in duty"), from Old French dever "duty," from Latin debere "to owe" (see debt). One's endeavors meaning one's "utmost effort" is from late 15c.

endeavor

c.1400, from phrase put in dever (see endeavor (n.)). Related: Endeavored; endeavoring.

Wiktionary
endeavor

n. 1 A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal. 2 Enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To exert oneself. (15th-17th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously. (from 16th c.) 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To attempt (something). (16th-17th c.) 4 To work with purpose.

WordNet
endeavor
  1. n. a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise" [syn: enterprise, endeavour]

  2. earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try" [syn: attempt, effort, endeavour, try]

  3. v. attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" [syn: endeavour, strive]

Gazetteer
Endeavor, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 440
Housing Units (2000): 170
Land area (2000): 0.642079 sq. miles (1.662978 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.059699 sq. miles (0.154620 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.701778 sq. miles (1.817598 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24075
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.715813 N, 89.468948 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53930
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Endeavor (non-profit)

Endeavor is a non-profit organization headquartered in New York City that credits itself as pioneering the concept of high-impact entrepreneurship in growth markets around the world. Its mission is to select, mentor and accelerate the best High-Impact Entrepreneurs around the world.

Established in 1997, Endeavor is headquartered in New York City with satellite offices in San Francisco and Singapore. It also has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Detroit, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Louisville, Malaysia, Mexico, Miami, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, UAE and Uruguay. The organization expanded to 25 countries in 2015, including expansions in the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia.

Usage examples of "endeavor".

Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.

His endeavor to rationalize the doctrine of Augsburg, especially with reference to the Zwinglians, had disastrous results.

Only recently it has been revealed how the Fuggers of Augsburg and their allies endeavored to manipulate or to frustrate its work in the matter of government regulation of industry and commerce.

At his shout two or three pirates awoke, jumped up, and, rushing on Ayrton, endeavored to throw him down.

On the other hand he was not sure how much pleasure she had derived from this consuming, backbreaking endeavor.

Kayak Bill, who had once seen a tidal wave on Bering Sea, pictured it advancing in the grey unnatural night from the far reaches of the ocean, growing larger and larger as it neared the shallows off Kon Klayu, and then, tossing its dancing crest to the sky in gigantic abandon, curling down from aloft in green-white, crushing splendor and flinging itself far over the beachline in its endeavor to encompass them all.

Williams, if you would go belowstairs to join my wife and the Reverend Miller in a cup of tea, I will endeavor to reason with my unreasonable brother.

Yet another aspect of IS she had always conveniently ignored, along with the bioethical aspects of their endeavors.

In our collection we have endeavored, so far as possible, to cite similar cases from the older and from the more recent literature.

It began with the cryptanalytic endeavors of John Wallis, the greatest English mathematician before Newton.

At Lyon, and at Mouvans in Dauphine, a body of Reformers, under command of the most enterprising prince of the house of Bourbon had endeavored to incite the populace to rise.

To obtain a clearer knowledge of these great events, we shall endeavor to form a previous idea of the character, forces, and designs of those nations who avenged the cause of Hannibal and Mithridates.

To your colored race they have no objection I would endeavor to have you made the equals, and have the best assurance that you should be the equals, of the best.

Somerset was well apprised of all these alarming circumstances, and endeavored, by the most friendly expedients, by entreaty, reason, and even by heaping new favors upon the admiral, to make him desist from his dangerous counsels: but finding all endeavors ineffectual, he began to think of more severe remedies.

Having personally seen active service on the Niagara frontier during both of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870, and retaining vivid recollections of the situation of affairs at the front during these two campaigns, I will endeavor in the succeeding chapters of this book to give the reader a faithful account of what occurred on these stirring occasions.