Under-rate sb.

[UNDER-¹ 10 b.] A rate lower than the true or proper one.

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1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 240. Being valued … at a fauourable and farre vnder-rate.

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1693. G. Stepney, in Dryden’s Juvenal, viii. (1697), 195. The worthless Brute is from New-Market brought, And at an under-rate in Smith-Field bought.

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1712. Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), III. 477. I highly commend your Resolution of not letting Copies go at Under-Rates.

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1748. Richardson, Clarissa, VI. 255. Tho’ her conscience permitted her to take them [clothes] at such an under-rate.

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