disprize

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ prize. Doublet of dispraise.

Verb

disprize (third-person singular simple present disprizes, present participle disprizing, simple past and past participle disprized)

1. (transitive, archaic) To depreciate.
   • a. 1687, Charles Cotton, Ode to Lydia:

     Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize.