Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1747-1799
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APPRETIATE, v. Sc. law. Estimate the value of.Sc. usage of Eng. appreciate, †appretiate: to appraise, set a price or valuation on. Hence appretiation, appraisement, appreciator, a valuator.Sc. 1747 Rec. Conv. Burghs (1915) 242:
To cause appretiat and sell all ruinous tenements.Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 208 (under Legal Words and Phrases):
To appretiate. To appraise.Ork. 1771 P. Fea MS. Diary (Nov.):
Got the appretiation of Whitehall done about Sunsett. Got the Inventorys signed by the Appreciators.Per. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Per. 83:
To take the sheep-stock off the outgoing tenant's hands by appreciation of arbiters.
