Dictionary entry

Appraise

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ap‐praise″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Appraised (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Appraising.] [Pref. ad- + praise. See Praise, Price, Apprize, Appreciate.] 1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

2. To estimate; to conjecture.

Enoch... appraised his weight.

Tennyson.

3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.

Appraised the Lycian custom.

Tennyson.

☞ In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize.