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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Appraise  \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.  [Obs.]  --R.  Browning. 
 
  Appraised  the  Lycian  custom.  --Tennyson. 
 
  Note:  In  the  United  States,  this  word  is  often  pronounced, 
  and  sometimes  written,  apprize. 




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