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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To evaluate, especially in an official capacity.
  2. v. To estimate the quality, amount, size, and other features of; judge. See Synonyms at estimate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. . To value; prize.
  2. To value in current money; officially set a price upon; estimate the value of: used especially of the action of a person or persons appointed for the purpose, under direction of law or by agreement of persons interested: as, to appraise the goods and estate of a deceased person, or goods taken under a distress for rent.
  3. To estimate generally, in regard to quality, service, size, weight, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
  2. v. To estimate; to conjecture.
  3. v. To praise; to commend.
  4. v. proscribed To apprise, inform.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose.
  2. v. To estimate; to conjecture.
  3. v. obsolete To praise; to commend.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
  2. v. consider in a comprehensive way

Etymologies

  1. Incorrect form of apprise. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English appreisen, possibly from Old French aprisier, from Late Latin appretiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin pretium, price; see per-5 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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