v. [Of rather late appearance; f. PRAISE v., previously, and, for some time, contemporaneously, used in same sense. Perh. formed on analogy of the synonymous PRIZE, APPRIZE: see the latter.]

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  1.  To fix a price for, assign a money value to: esp. as an official valuer or appraiser.

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[1383.  Wyclif, Matt. xxvii. 9. The pris of a man preysid, whom thei preysiden, of the sonys of Yrael.

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1590.  Swinburne, Testaments, 220. Others praise them among the moueables; but it were better to praise them seuerally.]

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1535.  in Wood’s Lett. Illustr. Ladies (1852), II. 164. The stuff … was appraised by the appraisers.

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1661.  Pepys, Diary, 2 Oct. All this morning at Pegg Kite’s … appraising her goods that her mother has left.

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1762.  Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), IV. lxii. 665. The cartoons … were only appraised at three hundred pounds.

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1878.  Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 151. They [mercenaries] transferred their services … to those who would appraise them more highly.

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  2.  transf. To estimate the amount, quality or excellence of. Also refl.

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1841.  Myers, Cath. Th., IV. § 40. 385. Rightly to appraise the value of various truths.

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1864.  Tennyson, En. Arden, 154. The feeble infant … Whom Enoch took, and handled all his limbs, Appraised his weight.

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1869.  Arber, James I’s Ess., Introd. 4. The king’s Sonnets and Poems … appraise themselves.

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