Crossword clues for appraising
appraising
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appraise \Ap*praise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appraised; p. pr. & vb. n. Appraising.] [Pref. ad- + praise. See Praise, Price, Apprize, Appreciate.]
To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
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To estimate; to conjecture.
Enoch . . . appraised his weight.
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To praise; to commend. [Obs.]
--R. Browning.Appraised the Lycian custom.
--Tennyson.Note: In the United States, this word is often pronounced, and sometimes written, apprize.
Wiktionary
n. (cx Scotland legal historical English) (alt form apprising English) vb. (present participle of appraise English)
WordNet
adj. exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms" [syn: appraising(a), evaluative]
Usage examples of "appraising".
But he kept his eyes ever watchful, eyeing passers-by and loiterers, appraising them swiftly, certainly.
He is quiet, but always appraising, with a gentle laugh--all of it conveniently misleading.
This river of noise is routed through translators in Pakistan and, in some cases, the United States, appraising ears whose job is to know a direct hit when they hear one.
His eyes traveled the room, a general of the army appraising his troops before a perilous operation.
Ali Mevlevi listened attentively while appraising his chief of internal security.
Sylvia squinted her eyes as if appraising his ability to keep a secret.
Her back was turned to him, but Esmenet could feel his appraising look.
As for good fame, it is either deserved and then is due to the services done and to the merit of those appraising them, or it is undeserved, and then must be attributed to the injustice of those making the award.
In any case, once a thing--whether by point or standard or any other means--measures succession, it must measure according to time: this number appraising movement degree by degree must, therefore, if it is to serve as a measure at all, be something dependent upon time and in contact with it: for, either, degree is spatial, merely--the beginning and end of the Stadium, for example--or in the only alternative, it is a pure matter of Time: the succession of early and late is stage of Time, Time ending upon a certain Now or Time beginning from a Now.
The Queen had done it, well, yes, and the Prince, and the glances that were tossed his way seemed more appraising of him than previously.
One day, appraising himself with severity in the bathroom mirror, Lefty realized that he had become one of those older men who slicked their hair back in allegiance to an era no one could remember.
Clearly, the ship was brand-new, built, he guessed after appraising its sleek lines, in Holland or Germany, and it was meticulously tended.