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To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5.

That which appertains to a person; an appurtenance. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

Capable of being appraised.

A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

To raise. [Obs.] Shak.

Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

An idiom of the Aramaic.

A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Archaic. [R.] -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.

tiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

One who uses archaisms.

Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.

To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.