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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

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.

[From Lat. appretiāt-um, pa.p. of appreciāre, set a price to, Lat. ad + pretium, a price.]

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