[f. next + -AL 2.] The act of appraising a. lit. The setting of a price. b. fig. Estimate of worth.
1817. Coleridge, Biogr. Lit., 151. Criticism as employed in the appraisal of works [poems] more or less imperfect.
1838. De Quincey (title), A Brief Appraisal of Greek Literature.
1863. B. Taylor, H. Thurston, I. 67. An inventory and appraisal of the live stock.
1876. M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma, 222. Here are both inward appraisal and self-renouncement.
