APPRECIATE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon.

2.
v.

To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay.

3.
v.

To be sensible of; to distinguish. To test the power of bappreciate color. Lubbock.

4.
v.

To rise in value. [See note under Rise, v. i.] J. Morse.