Prised vs Peised - What's the difference?
prised | peised |
(prise)
To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
(peise)
To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
(figuratively) To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
A weight; a poise.
(obsolete) A heavy blow, an impact.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
*:Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.
As verbs the difference between prised and peised
is that prised is past tense of prise while peised is past tense of peise.prised
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* (verb) prizeSee also
* priceVerb
(pris)- 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. — , The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
- c. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! — Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
- 2004: Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. — BBC News