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overprize, v.|-ˈpraɪz|
[over- 26, 22.]
1. trans. To prize, esteem, or value too highly; to over-estimate, overrate.
1589Nashe Almond for Parrat 15 You, like Midasses, haue ouerprised his musick. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xix. (1668) 191 Overprizing what they have already acquired, they make no further search. 1761Young Resignation i. xlvi, Blind Error..Bids us for ever Pains deplore, Our Pleasures overprize. 1813Coleridge Remorse i. ii, I am much beholden to your high opinion, Which so o'erprizes my light services.
2. To exceed or surpass in value. Obs. or arch.
1593B. Barnes Parthen. Madrigal xxiii, Those tresses, Whose train..Apollo's locks did overprize. 1610Shakes. Temp. i. ii. 92 That, which but by being so retir'd Ore⁓priz'd all popular rate. 1669G. Etherege Love in Tub v. i, These tears..which for me you shed, O'erprize the blood which I for you have bled.
Hence overˈprizer, one who overprizes.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. iii. §15. 385 To conuict these his fawning ouer-prizers. |