apprize, -ise, v.2 arch.
(əˈpraɪz)
Forms: 5– apprise, 6– apprize.
[a. OF. aprise-r, earlier aprisier, f. à to + prisier, preisier to price, prize, praise; or perh. directly on phrase à pris, as if mettre à prix. Retained in Sc. Law, and used occasionally by Eng. writers, but ordinarily represented in Eng. by appraise, in its analysis the same word, but with a different history. Cf. also praise and prize.]
1. Sc. Law. To put a selling price upon, put up for sale at a set price, appraise.
| 1533 Bellendene Livy iii. 226 Thay..apprisit and sauld all the gudis. 1682 Lond. Gaz. mdccxlvi/4 Very fine Spanish Cloth..Apprized from 10 to 16s. per Yard. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 258 The sheriff was to apprise or tax the value of the lands. |
2. To estimate the worth of, value, appreciate.
| a 1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 218 Þe riche prince was þere aprised. 1401 Pol. Poems II. 113 Thou apprisist not the curse of seint Franceis. 1536 Bellendene Cron. Scotl. (1821) I. 16 This last opinioun wes maist apprisit. 1617 R. Wilkinson Barw.-bridge Ded., How highly your Highnes apprizeth peace. 1868 Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 668 Whosoever at the proper worth Apprises worldly honour. 1877 Daily News 5 Nov. 5/2 Art among women was apprized..on very much the same sort of principle. |