Estimable vs Appraise - What's the difference?
estimable | appraise |
Worthy of esteem; admirable.
* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 22,
(archaic) Valuable.
* 1596 , , The Merchant of Venice , act 1, scene 3:
Capable of being estimated.
* 1928 , Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry , volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.
To estimate; to conjecture.
To praise; to commend.
As an adjective estimable
is worthy of esteem; admirable.As a verb appraise is
to set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels or appraise can be (proscribed) to apprise, inform.estimable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. March told . . . how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
- A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
- Is not so estimable , profitable neither,
- As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
- After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.
References
* * * * "estimable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
estimable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----