appraise

appraise
appraisable, adj.appraiser, n.appraisingly, adv.appraisive, adj.
/euh prayz"/, v.t., appraised, appraising.
1. to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
2. to estimate the nature, quality, importance, etc.: He tried to appraise the poetry of John Updike.
[1400-50; late ME apraysen to set a value on, prob. a conflation of aprisen to APPRIZE1 and preisen to PRAISE (with sense of PRIZE2)]

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