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ey), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person. It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them. Locke. It is always very difficult t…

To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account." Shak.

Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

ing of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

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

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

Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*bly, adv.

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

A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.

An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

, rate, or value; as, with the thermometer at 80º; goods sold at a cheap price; a country estimated at 10,000 square miles; life is short at the longest.

Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. "The average of sensations." Paley.

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of…

an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.