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Word Meanings - FOREPRIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.

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  • BEFOREHAND
    1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
  • PRIZER
    One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak.
  • PRIZEMAN
    The winner of a prize.
  • HOOKER
    1. One who, or that which, hooks. A Dutch vessel with two masts. A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
  • PRIZE
    prendre to take, L. prendere, prehendere; in some senses, as 2 , either from, or influenced by, F. prix price. See Prison, Prehensile, 1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  • OVERPRIZE
    Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
  • APPRIZER
    A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
  • APPRIZEMENT
    Appraisement.
  • OUTPRIZE
    To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.
  • FOREPRIZE
    To prize or rate beforehand. Hooker.
  • REPRIZE
    See SPENSER
  • UNDERPRIZE
    To undervalue; to underestimate. Shak.
  • DISPRIZE
    To do preciate. Cotton .
  • APPRIZE
    To appraise; to value; to appreciate.
  • NOBEL PRIZES
    Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of A. B. Nobel (1833- 96), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what
  • REPRIZES
    See 2
  • MISPRIZE
    To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning. (more info) pref. amiss, wrong (L. minus less + LL. pretium price. See price,

 

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