appraise

1) To assign a money value to an item.

The appraiser valued property when the inventory of the goods of deceased persons were drawn up: 1559 15 oxen praised at 30s a piece, North Stainley. To apprize has a similar origin and was also abbreviated: 1555 beddynge whiche was Kataryn Thwait widow … prisyd by us Thomas Thwait, etc., Sedbusk.

spellings apprize praise prisyd
dates 1555 1559

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