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An enterprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

See 1st Prizer. [Obs.]

To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon.

An enterprise; endeavor; adventure. Chaucer. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.

gy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. Their hands can not perform their enterprise. Job v. 12.

One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.

A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. Wharton.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.]

See Misprize. [Obs.] Shak.

A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor. Bacon.

A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.] Dryden.

To surprise. [Obs.] Chaucer.

aking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

Surprisal. [Obs.] Daniel.

One who surprises.

; rising. [R.] Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise Shak.

effect; miscarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise." Prescott.

That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heav…

mplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.