[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who appraises: spec. a person appointed and sworn to estimate the value of property.
1529. Petition, in Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 194. There be limited and appointed so many judges, scribes, apparitors, summoners, appraysers.
1696. Lond. Gaz., mmmccxxxviii/3. Officers, who are to be Appraisers and Sellers of all moveable Goods.
1783. Burke, Rep. Aff. India, Wks. 1842, II. 3. Having ordered the appraiser of the company’s cloths … to be severely flogged.
1857. Toulmin Smith, Parish, 130. The appraisers sworn to apprise goods sold under distress for rent.
2. transf. One who estimates quality or worth.
1801. Mar. Edgeworth, Belinda, I. vi. 111. Any fair appraiser of delicate distresses, would decide that I am … more to be pitied than you are.
1824. Coleridge, Aids to Refl. (1848), I. 149. You have appointed the many as your judges and appraisers.
