Obs. [a. OF. aprise for anprise = en-, em-prise, from emprendre to take in hand, undertake: see EMPRISE, the ordinary form.] Emprise; enterprise, undertaking, achievement.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sages (W.), 1941. Ac ȝif thou leuest hire lesing, Than the falle a werse aprise.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxx. 520. For ȝif thou do, thou lesist thin aprise. Ibid., lii. 558. Sche merveilled he spak of so gret aprys.
