[f. as prec. + -MENT.]
1. The action of appraising or valuing; valuation by an official or authorized appraiser.
1642. Ord. & Declar. Lords & Comm., 20 Oct., 4. A true appraysement [shall be] made of the same.
1745. Season. Adv. Protest., 20. The Landlords are paid their Rents, and no Appraisements are heard of in twenty Years.
1867. Lydia M. Child, Rom. Repub., vi. 68. The tedious details of Mr. Royal’s liabilities, and the appraisement of his property.
2. A price fixed by appraising, estimated value.
1703. Lond. Gaz., mmmdcccclxxx/3. Bars of Silver … to be set up at 1d. 2q. per Ounce under the Appraisement.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. ix. 52. I have consented to take the household linen at an appraisement.
1881. W. Springer, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXXII. 377. If the appraisement is exorbitant, it will be impossible to get a bill through Congress to pay the companies such exorbitant price for their property.
3. transf. Estimation of quality or worth generally.
a. 1858. De Quincey, Whiggism, Wks. VI. 45. Ground more important to Dr. Parr’s reputation, and, at the same time, much more susceptible of a sincere latitude of appraisement.
1881. Mrs. Linton, My Love, III. 5. A lover’s keen appraisement of the value of the thing he wants.
