Middle English Dictionary Entry
ap(p)rīsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | ap(p)rīsen v. |
| Etymology | OF aprisier |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. appreisen.
1.
(a) To estimate or determine the value of (sth.); evaluate, appraise; (b) to regard (sth.) as valuable, worthy, or important; to prize or esteem; (c) to praise or worship (God).
Associated quotations
a
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)255 : Þat neiþer we juge neiþer apprise or mesure vs silf..in hiȝer degree toward þee, god, þan we in trouþe ben.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)51 : Lest he..apprise ouer litle the inward Scripture.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)68/17 : Not þat y meene doctouris fyndyngis..to be dispisid..but y meene..þat þei be apprisid and sett bi, as it is declarid [etc.].
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)205/4 : Þe office of preiyng mai not at his euen worþ be apprisid neiþir preisid.
b
- (1402) Topias (Dgb 41)p.113 : Thou apprisist not the curse of seint Franceis, but scornyst the malisoun of the foure ordris.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)18 : Þei apprisen so myche þo vnsauery bokis whiche þei han in her modiris langage among hem in vse.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)173 : How myche eny man in þis world apprisiþ and chargiþ to perfoorme and fulfille þe desijr of his freend.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)47 : Miche ouȝten lay persoones forto make and apprise and loue the now spoken bokis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)102/24 : Which doctrines, scolis and prechingis ben so famose, and so moche apprisid and sett bi of clerkis.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)107/18 : A ful famose and moche apprisid book.
c
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)239 : Þou, lord god, art moost worþi to be apprisid and loued of vs.
- a1450 Ch.Feasts (Roy 18.A.10)230 : Þe riche prince [Jesus] was þere aprised.