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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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