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or superior power. I will depart my pris, or may prey, by deliberation. Chaucer. His own prize, Whom formerly he had in battle won. Spenser.

The winner of a prize.

One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger. [Obs.] Shak. Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer. B. Jonson.

To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

Appraisement.

An appraiser.

To do preciate. [R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).

To prize or rate beforehand. [Obs.] Hooker.

To slight or undervalue. O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized! Hillhouse. I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize. Mrs. Browning.

Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of A. B. Nobel (1833- 96), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as the most important work during the year in physics, chem…

To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. [Obs.] Shak.

Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.

See Reprise. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Repise, n., 2.

To undervalue; to underestimate. Shak.

to explain; - - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. To account of, to esteem; to prize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

ure, 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.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

A contest for a prize at the public games.