vbl. sb. arch. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of attaching a value to; estimation of value, appraisement; appreciation.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 26. The iust apprising of Holi Scripture.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, III. 294. That na werkis war done be thame war wourthy to have apprising.
1754. Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law, II. xi. (1809), 257. So that apprisings were, by their original constitution, proper sales of the debtor’s lands, to any purchaser who offered.
