单词 | overprize |
释义 | overprizev. 1. transitive. To prize, esteem, or value too highly; to overrate. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > over-estimate or overvalue to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 to make of (also on)c1449 to make fair weather of1537 over-reckon1537 overmind1571 overween1588 overprize?1589 overcount1593 overvalue1597 overrate1599 wondernize1599 overhold1609 over-cess1611 overweight1613 overthinka1618 over-title1620 overcast1622 overmeasure1625 over-sum1628 overesteema1639 overproportion1642 outbid1688 overcharge1711 overestimate1797 overreach1822 overplay1835 maximize1866 maximate1881 out-reckon1898 fetishize1934 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 15 You, like Midasses, haue ouerprised his musick. 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 134 Samson whose lustfull view did overprize Vnlawfull beautye's punisht in his eyes. 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xix. 191 Over-prizing what they have already acquired, they make no further search. 1738 S. Boyse Transl. & Poems ii. 244 Grant me, indulgent Heav'n! this sole Request; Nor Life to overprize, nor Death to fear. 1761 E. Young Resignation i. xlvi Blind Error..Bids us for ever Pains deplore, Our Pleasures overprize. 1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse i. ii. 9 I am much beholden to your high opinion, Which so o'erprizes my light services. 1852 N. Amer. Rev. 74 374 Facts thus dragged to light are apt to be overprized by their discoverer, who naturally measures their importance by the amount of labor which it has cost to obtain them. 1931 T. S. Moore Blind Thamyris in Poems 112 Nor did he much over-prize his own gift. 2002 Village Voice (Nexis) 12 Feb. 72 Maybe the dominance of the film and TV industries there leads theater audiences to overprize their marginalized art form. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [verb (transitive)] > surpass in value value1528 out-prize1576 overprize1593 outvalue1600 overvalue1608 outbid1642 1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 72 Those tresses: Whose trayne..Apolloes lockes did ouerprise. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 92 That, which but by being so retir'd Ore-priz'd all popular rate. View more context for this quotation 1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge v. i. 69 These tears..which for me you shed, Ore-prize the blood which I for you have bled. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] > flatterer fickler?c1225 losenger1303 glothererc1325 flatterera1340 blander1340 flatter1340 glozera1420 fleecherc1425 fager1435 soother1553 smooth-boots1599 sleekstonea1610 blandisher1611 cogger1611 over-prizer1611 smoother1611 colloguer1631 dauber1642 pargetera1656 flattercap1681 whillywhaa1682 sweetener1728 proneur1809 carney1818 soft-soaper1839 soft-solderer1851 smooth-sayer1872 incenser1873 soft-mouth1881 blarneyer1882 flannel-mouth1882 oiler1883 jollier1896 smoodger1898 plámáser1919 sweet-talker1946 smarmy1957 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iii. 392/1 To conuict these his fawning ouer-prizers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1589 |
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