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apprise

verb
/əˈpɹaɪz/US

Etymology

From Middle English aprisen, apprisen (“to determine or estimate the value of (something), to appraise, evaluate; to regard (something) as important, valuable, or worthy, to esteem, prize; to praise or worship (God)”), and then either: * from Old French apriser, aprisier (“to appraise, evaluate”), from à (“to”) + prisier, preisier (“to attribute a value to, to appraise, value”) (from Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“(Late Latin) to consider valuable, hold in high regard, to esteem, prize, value; (Medieval Latin) to estimate the worth of, appraise, assess, value”), from pretium + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)); or * from Old French à pris (“to (put a) price (on)”) (pris (“price; esteem, (positive) reputation”) is derived from Latin pretium). Pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”). The English word is a doublet of appraise, appreciate, praise, price, and prize.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “before, in front; first”
  2. derived from pretium
  3. derived from à pris — “to (put a) price (on)”
  4. derived from pretiāre
  5. derived from apriser
  6. inherited from aprisen

Definitions

  1. To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information

    To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.

    • The ears apprise the brain of sound.
    • [I]n general, he reſolve to Govern vvell: And […] Throughly and rightly to appriſe himſelf of that Principle that is the Soul of the Government; […]
    • As you have considered human nature in all its lights, you must be extremely well apprised, that there is a very close correspondence between the outward and the inward man; […]

  2. To formally impart (information) to someone

    To formally impart (information) to someone; to advise, to notify.

    • P.S. Morlands have not yet written to my bankers apprizing the payment of your balances; pray desire them to do so.

  3. Synonym of appraise (“to determine the value or worth of (something)”).

    • Theſe [people] muſt remember, hovv highly God apprizeth good purpoſes, and deſires, accepting, and revvarding them, vvhen they come to him, as if they came accompanied vvith the deeds themſelues.
    • [W]hosoever, at the proper worth, / Apprises worldly honour and repute, / Esteems it nobler to die honoured man / Beneath Mannaia, than live centuries / Disgraced in the eye o' the world.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale

      To put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.

      • Infeftments are alſo extinct, vvhen the Superior adjudgeth or appriſeth from his Vaſſal; for thereby it vvas found, that the Property vvas Conſolidat vvith the Superiority,

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Derived

apprisal, reapprise, unapprised, apprisable, appriser, apprizer, apprising, apprizing

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA