appraisement

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English appraise

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Old French -mentbor.

Middle English -ment

English -ment

English appraisement

From appraise + -ment.

Noun

appraisement (countable and uncountable, plural appraisements)

1. (dated) The act of appraising.

   Synonym: appraisal

   • 1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons‎^[1], London:

     […] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.

   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC, page 77:

     I was obliged to stay till this afternoon, to settle several necessary matters, and to direct inventories to be taken, in order for appraisement; for every thing is to be turned into money, by his will.

   • 1887, Hall Caine, chapter 37, in The Deemster‎^[2], volume 3, London: Chatto & Windus, page 140:

     she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, “THE CONVERT”, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the sixth (The Convert), page 158:

     Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality.

   • 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa‎^[3], Penguin, published 1954, Part 1, p. 27:

     A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.

See also

• prizement

Translations

appraisal — see appraisal