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▪ I. ˈunder-rate, n.
[under-1 10 b.]
A rate lower than the true or proper one.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 240 Being valued..at a fauourable and farre vnder-rate. 1693G. Stepney in Dryden's Juvenal viii. (1697) 195 The worthless Brute is from New-Market brought, And at an under-rate in Smith-Field bought. 1712Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 477, I highly commend your Resolution of not letting Copies go at Under-Rates. 1748Richardson Clarissa VI. 255 Tho' her conscience permitted her to take them [clothes] at such an under-rate.
▪ II. ˈunder-rate, a.
[under-2.]
Inferior, subordinate.
1709Swift Let. to Hunter 12 Jan., The Whigs carry all before them, and how far they will pursue their victories we underrate Whigs can hardly tell. 1776Bentham Fragm. Govt. Wks. 1843 I. 282 This deficiency is no other than what an underrate workman might easily supply. |