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单词 prize
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prizen.1adj.

Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/
Forms:

α. Middle English priis, Middle English prijs, Middle English pris, Middle English priys, Middle English prys, Middle English–1600s prise; Scottish pre-1700 pris, pre-1700 prise, pre-1700 pryis, pre-1700 prys, pre-1700 pryse.

β. late Middle English pryce, late Middle English–1600s price; Scottish pre-1700 price, pre-1700 pryce.

γ. late Middle English– prize, 1500s–1700s (1800s archaic) pryze.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: price n.
Etymology: Originally a variant of price n., now usually distinguished in form in the senses below, perhaps by association with prize v.1 Compare prize n.3
A. n.1
1.
a. A reward, trophy, or symbol of victory or superiority offered or awarded in a contest or competition.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize
prizea1275
wagerc1450
fee1488
premie?1548
premium1601
wed-feea1605
bravy1663
brabeum1676
premio1728
α.
a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 139 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 145 So he wile þat uue don and soþen hauen ur pris.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 830 Who so winneþ þe turnament..þe priis have schal, Þe gerfauk & þe gode stede.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 24 Thei that rennen in a furlong, alle forsoth rennen, but oon takith the priys [L. bravium].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 25364 (MED) Oft þe men þat er rightwis, Thoru faanding win þai to þair pris [so Gött.; a1400 Fairf. prise].
a1450 (?1420) J. Lydgate Temple of Glas (Tanner) (1891) 621 (MED) No man may in your werre him vaunte To gete a pris but oonli bi mekenes.
c1450 (?a1400) T. Chestre Sir Launfal (1930) 487 (MED) Þe prys of þat turnay Was delyuered to Launfal.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 241, in Wks. (1931) I. 152 In euerilk play he wan the pryse.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 196 Shooting for wagers..and for like rewards and prises.
a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom of Sutherland (1813) 261 And ther gave thrie rich pryses vnto thrie of the best deserving assailliers.
β. c1450 King Ponthus (Digby) in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1897) 12 140 (MED) The pris withoute was yeven to Geffray de Chateawbreaunce and the price within to Pollides.1494 Loutfut MS f. 44, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pris(e And be thaim the price salbe presentit til thaim that best has disseruyt.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxviii. 205 All..ar playnly acorded..to gyue you the price and chapelette.1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. vii The onely man, to whom the price was of right to be adiudged.1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 549 Certain brabiums or prices for such as shall do best.γ. 1467 J. Tiptoft in MS Harl. 69 No. 17 (MED) Reserving always to the Queenes Highnes..the Attribution and Gifte of the Prize.1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes iv. 96 The Prize was giuen to the Earle of Oxford.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 59 Did I deserue no more then a fooles head, Is that my prize, are my deserts no better? View more context for this quotation1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 9 They had Judges ordain'd to decide their Merit, and Prizes to reward it.1701 B. Keach Gospel Myst. Unveil'd II. iii. 113/2 Is it not folly to think to reap, and never sow? Or sow Tares, and yet hope to reap Wheat? or to expect to get the Victory and never fight, or to win the Prize and never run?1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 193 We overvalue the prize for which we contend.1794 Hope's New Meth. Fencing Law x. 232–3 Whoever..shall..have beat maniest, shall be declared..to have gain'd the Prize.1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxviii. 96 Kylon..had gained the prize in the Olympic stadium.1890 C. G. Heathcote Lawn Tennis in J. M. Heathcote et al. Tennis (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 170 At Wimbledon Mr. Lawford..won the All Comers prize.1930 Lima (Ohio) News 15 Apr. 12/5 I stopped at Charleston, S. C..and took second prize in a race there.1952 Life 17 Nov. 79/2 [The] contestants win prizes by performing balancing feats while being pelted with cream pies.1991 Canberra Times 31 Jan. 21/2 Morse will start as one of the favourites for the first prize of $36,000.
b. spec. In a college, school, etc.: a reward given in recognition of academic achievement, esp. in a competitive examination. Cf. premium n. 1a.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > reward for good work
prize1752
reward book1801
gold star1886
star1890
1752 Cambr. Univ. Notice 11 Dec. Mr. Finch and..Mr. Townsend having proposed..to give Two Prizes of Fifteen Guineas each to two Senior Batchelors of Arts..who shall compose the best Exercises in Latin Prose.
1768 M. Howard Conquest Quebec Pref. Honoured with the Prize given by the..Chancellor of the University of Oxford, for the best English Verses on this Subject.
1791 Circular Clarke's..School, Liverpool Præmia. Names of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen to whom the Annual Prizes were publicly adjudged.
1800 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 9 University Prizes. Two gold medals, value 15 guineas each, are given annually by the Chancellor of this University.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 61 You love The metaphysics! read and earn our prize, A golden broach.
1899 E. Phillpotts Human Boy 120 He was swatting like anything in play-hours for a special Old Testament history prize.
1950 E. H. W. Meyerstein Let. 6 Jan. (1959) 369 You must remember that it is much more important socially for a boy to play for his public school in cricket..than to win a prize.
1990 S. Miller Family Pictures i. x. 195 The school head, Mr. Karmel, rose to begin awarding the prizes and handing out diplomas.
c. A reward or trophy offered to a person displaying particular merit in a skill, art, field of study, etc., in a competition, exhibition, etc., designed to promote such activity or study.Now frequently qualified by the name of the person who founded the prize or in whose memory the prize was established, as Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > for products or work exhibited
grand prize1755
prize1762
Grand Prix1866
1762 Public Advertiser 27 July No Catch, Canon, or Glee, whose Author is known, will be entitled to either of these Prizes.
1793 Musical Entertainmt. at Sadler's Wells Th. 4 June The Prize of Industry. Taken from a Fete given in Oxfordshire for the encouragement of industry amongst the Villagers.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 209 The first prize for 12 Ranunculuses (amateurs' class) was awarded [etc.].
1895 Daily News 17 Oct. 5/4 Prizes are to be given to tradesmen for the best display of what is called window dressing.
1923 National Geographic Mag Apr. 429/1 Groups of boys and girls..are encouraged to compete for prizes in raising the biggest ears of corn, the fattest calves, or the finest-looking chickens.
1942 Nature 25 Apr. 475/1 The following awards of Stalin prizes for outstanding scientific work in 1941 have been made.
1958 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 May 22/8 Donald Dussard..won two prizes at the Child Welfare Association Baby Show... Donald took 1st Prize in the 6 months-to-one year Class.
1999 New Yorker 4 Oct. 111 ‘Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha’, the only Irish novel to win the Booker Prize.
2. A sum of money or item of value offered in a competition based wholly or principally on chance, such as a lottery, raffle, lucky dip, etc. Also in figurative contexts.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > prize
lot1567
prize1567
welcome1567
lotterya1616
benefit1694
tern1856
rollover1981
1567 Particular Declar. Prices Great Lottery in H. Dyson Proclam. Raigne Q. Eliz. (1618) 99 A very rich Lotterie generall, without any Blanckes, contayning a great number of good Prices.
1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 75 I Pull, God send me fortune in my thank, Either a Prize worth having, or a Blank.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 105 The Case is like a Lottery with one Prize, a single Ticket is only enrich'd, and the rest are all Blanks.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 242. ⁋2 A Ticket in the Lottery, and..'tis come up this Morning a Five hundred Pound Prize.
1725 E. Young Universal Passion: Satire III 14 A beauteous sister, or convenient wife, Are prizes in the lottery of life.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. v. 46 I protested I could see no reason for it neither, nor why one got the ten thousand pound prize in the lottery.
1842 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. ix. 153 A twenty thousand prize in the lottery.
1883 W. C. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XV. 11/1 The word lottery..may be applied to any process of determining prizes by lot.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse xix. 239 The Governor of Livorno, in order to repair the defences of the city, announced by proclamation the establishment of an official lottery with several very large prizes.
1965 Austin (Illinois) News 9 Sept. 11/8 A portable television set will be the first prize in a raffle highlighting an outdoor dance at LaFollette Park.
1997 Times Educ. Suppl. 18 July 21/5 This is a huge, ferociously enjoyable book, like a lucky dip in which there's a prize for everybody.
2006 Daily Star (Nexis) 6 Jan. 11 There's an estimated jackpot of £58m on offer in tonight's EuroMillions, followed by a £15m top prize in tomorrow's Lotto Superdraw.
3. figurative.
a. Something striven for or worth striving for; a thing of value won by or inspiring effort.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [noun] > thing that is highly valued
prize1569
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun] > object of aspiration
ambitionc1475
markc1550
prize1569
Americaa1631
will to win1917
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature 49 So making hir poyson mounte all along the lyne and the rode, [she] so tormenteth the arme of the fisher, that often times he is constrained to abandon his prize.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 455 But this swift busines I must vneasie make, least too light winning Make the prize light. View more context for this quotation
1638 Walton in L. Roberts Merch. Mapp Commend. Verses 11 If thou would'st be a Merchant, buy this Booke: For 'tis a prize worth gold.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 373 The Locke..In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest.
1766 R. Rogers Ponteach ii. ii. 42 This will give full Success to both our Wishes: Thoul't gain the Prize of Love, and I of Wrath, In favour to our Family and State.
1825 L. S. Costello Songs of Stranger 60 We bring the prize of glory, Our country, Spain, to thee!
1857 L. H. Grindon Life (ed. 2) xxii. 270 Life has a prize for every one who will open his heart to receive it.
1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen II. xii. 214 Far from running away in horror of his suit, which is a thing to pique the pride of any man, Mary was unfeignedly proud of having won the prize.
1922 Times 29 July 19/5 The highest grade obtainable by the staff workers..has been fixed at £1,000... I hope that you will agree that it is a right and proper recognition of efficiency, and is a prize worth striving for.
1952 A. Bevan In Place of Fear iii. 44 Material success, in this philosophy, is the prize awarded by society to the individual who has served it best.
1994 Harper's Mag. July 6/1 He had allowed the American people to see what could become of their democracy in the hands of a thoroughly corrupt politician bent upon seizing the prize of absolute power.
b. An advantage, privilege, or honour. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance
advantagec1330
commodity?a1439
strengthc1440
paya1450
purchasec1450
prize1595
profita1616
usefulness1660
use value1844
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 60 Tis warres prise to take all aduantages.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. i. 20 Me thinkes 'tis prize [1595 pride] enough to be his Sonne. View more context for this quotation
c. An imaginary accolade for a person or thing pre-eminent in a field for which no actual or formal competition is held.Now frequently used ironically in contexts where pre-eminence is not particularly desirable.
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1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms.
1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) II. 370 He disputed for, and carried, the prize of poetry.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xii. 143 The points of Maurice de Bracy's [shoes] might have challenged the prize of extravagance with the gayest.
1965 Spectator 5 Feb. 157/3 The prize for tear-jerking seemed..destined for..the Daily Mail.
1995 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 22/1 The prize for the most obscure medical syndrome of the week goes to Micturation Syncope.
d. glittering prize n. an illustrious or prestigious award or accomplishment; a reward which is particularly desirable or sought after. Now chiefly in plural.In quots. 1792, 1811, glittering is used literally, though probably with allusion to the figurative sense of the phrase as a whole.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > one who or that which > that which
lurec1385
baitc1400
traina1425
allective1445
allurement1548
lodestone?1577
attractive1581
invites1615
magnetic1645
magnet1655
invitatory1666
track1672
glittering prize1713
catch1781
the rainbow's end1846
carrot1895
come-on1902
1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. xl. 16 A few glittering Prizes..among an infinity of Blanks, drew troops of Adventurers.
1792 C. Smith Elegiac Sonnets (ed. 6) lviii. 58 The brilliant Glow-worm..collects ‘the moisten'd’ flower, And bids soft leaves his glittering prize enfold.
1811 M. Holford Poet's Fate in Poems 9 Where never toil uptore the verdant sod To seek man's glittering prize, his earth-extracted god!
1875 F. Arnold Our Bishops & Deans I. v. 286 There are certain glittering prizes which are the great attractions to these.
1923 Ld. Birkenhead in Times 8 Nov. 7/4 The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
1976 F. Raphael (title) Glittering prizes.
1977 A. Clarke Let. from Dead ix. 104 Just keep your trap shut..and remember the glittering prizes.
1990 Country Homes Oct. 114/2 He went..then to Oxford where he took most of the glittering prizes.
e. chiefly British. no prizes for guessing (also spotting, etc.) —— and variants: used to indicate that what is expressed by the following phrase or clause is very obvious or too obvious to be worth mentioning.
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1947 Chicago Tribune 10 Aug. g8 There is no prize offered for guessing what happened next.
1952 Times 14 Oct. 2/6 (advt.) No prizes for spotting the cause of this monkey business!
1981 L. R. Banks Writing on Wall vi. 51 No prizes for guessing how I felt about getting up for school.
1994 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 22 July 6 b No one will win any prizes for guessing that what hurt the funds' performance most was the sharp fall in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
2004 Stardust (Internat. ed.) June 115 Just when you think that the name has exhausted its star power, yet another wannashine emerges and there are no prizes for guessing the name he goes by.
B. adj.
1. That wins or has won a prize in a competition or exhibition; prize-winning.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [adjective]
sunderlyOE
noblec1330
precellentc1384
passantc1385
especialc1386
passinga1387
surmountingc1407
superlative?a1430
precelling?1435
pre-eminenta1460
outrepassed1477
divine1488
pre-excellenta1500
superexcellent1508
transcending1528
pre-ordinate1543
exceeding1552
superexcelling1554
exquisite1578
surpassingc1580
summary1587
paragon1593
transcendent1598
overmatchful1609
termless1609
overtoppinga1615
paramounta1626
overtowering1639
surpassant1654
transcendental1701
superior1711
towery1731
prize1739
supernala1817
tiptopsome1819
tip-topping1826
par excellence1839
superfine1850
towering1894
1739 M. Browne Poems Var. Subj. 391 (heading) Prize poems. I. To her Majesty on her Grotto. Adjudg'd to the Literary Reward proposed to the Writers on that Subject.
1773 (title) Musæ Seatonianæ. A complete collection of the Cambridge prize poems, from their first institution..to the present time.
1803 D. Wilson (title) Common Sense: A Prize Essay, recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 15, 1803.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lx. 94 There was a prize ox, a prize pig, and ploughman, For Henry was a sort of Sabine showman.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 15 My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.
1933 E. Blunden Charles Lamb 21 George Richards, whose Oxford prize-poem delighted Byron.
1959 Times 12 Oct. 10/2 (heading) Archbishop bans a prize painting.
1991 N.Y. Times 13 Nov. d9/1 Through artificial insemination, a prize bull can father thousands of cows, passing along his superior genes to herds around the world.
2. Excellent or outstanding, so as to merit a prize; best. Now chiefly in ironic use, with reference to undesirable qualities: complete, utter, or unrivalled.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated
properc1430
arrant1639
erranta1720
defecated1796
unredeemed1799
blank1854
first class1868
prize1903
mucking1917
1835 New-Eng. Mag. May 367 Here are prize-vessels for sale—no French nor Spanish merchantmen, whose wealth is the birthright of British subjects, but hulls of British oak..laden with the King's own stores.
1888 A. Lang in Good Words Apr. 234/2 Little Dombey is a prize example of his pathos. Little Nell is another.
1903 W. M. Bickley Slang-Dict. 13 He's the prize chump of the outfit.
1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 6/2 Probably the prize example of what can be done in this respect is the story told by a man..of $4,000 paid for a marching song composed in honor of a certain presidential candidate.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. (Suppl.) 5/3 The final episode finds Katy..accused of writing to a young man regarded as a prize flirt.
1992 A. V. Roberts Morning's Gate xiv. 233 I'd look a prize twit, saying all that and not a scratch on me.

Compounds

Objective genitive.
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prize-giver n.
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1760 J. Mair Tyro's Dict. 13 Athlŏthĕtes, the judge or prize-giver in games of wrestling.
1874 Times 31 Oct. 10/4 A new prize-giver appears on the list this year in the person of Mr. Francis Bennoch, who offers rewards for the best foreground in oil, and for the best illustrations.
1992 G. Will Restoration i. 18 Jeffersonians may have been dreamers, but their nightmare is today's normality—government as prize and prize-giver, politics as an endless auction.
prizeholder n.
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1795 Times 12 Feb. 1/2 (advt.) The present Lottery contains only 40,000 tickets, and there is the same sum..to be divided among the prize-holders.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 54 They were naturally the prizeholders.
2005 Maryland Gaz. (Nexis) 20 Apr. c1 The talented prize holders received not only a ribbon from the county, but several awards from other sources as well.
prize-loser n.
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1906 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 21 Apr. 12/4 Of course, prize winners were highly pleased, and the prize-losers were not.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Dec. c2/1 Doctors have also been Nobel literature prize losers. Sigmund Freud was nominated for the 1936 literary prize.
prize-seeker n.
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1865 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 7/1 Zealous and more determined prize-givers and prize-seekers overruled Mr. Wright and his supporters.
1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Apr. (Mag.) 15/4 Along the column were prize seekers walking on their hands.
1995 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 28 May b1 Prize seekers tossed rings over bottles, fun seekers had their faces painted and thrill seekers got their insides stirred on the Gravitron.
prize-taker n.
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1854 National Era 28 Dec. 205 All the pupils..were to dress in white on that grand occasion, with blue sashes and trimmings. Especially was this uniform considered indispensable to the prize takers.
1900 Times 10 Feb. 8/2 Mr. Barnet, of Fakenham, takes the first prize with a fine specimen, Mr. Hardy, of Wood-green, being also a prize-taker.
1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 June 55 The two top prize-takers in the annual Zachary Society National Vocal Competition..were soprano Rosa Vento of New York City and bass Peter Loehle of Ridgewood, N.J.
prize-winner n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > prize-winner
prizeman1796
prizewoman1843
prizer1846
prize-winnera1849
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > one who wins > one who wins a prize
prizeman1796
prizewoman1843
prizer1846
prize-winnera1849
a1849 H. Colman European Agric. & Rural Econ. (1851) 320 Mr. Bates, one of the most distinguished breeders of short horns in the kingdom, and a successful prize winner for his stock.
1884 Live Stock Jrnl. Aug. 130 The second prize-winner is leggy..with straight shoulders and is undershot.
1989 Smithsonian Dec. 12/3 Both of the prize-winners are holders of many other patents.
prize-winning adj.
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1822 J. Wilson Metricum Symposium Ambrosianum in Blackwood's Mag. July 83 The prize-winning poets of Isis and Cam.
1904 Collier's 7 May 20/2 No one will know who are the authors of the prize-winning stories until the judges have selected the three best manuscripts.
1998 Private Eye 9 Jan. 25/1 Piles of prizewinning literary biographies lie around the bookshops like so many breezeblocks.
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prize book n. a book won or offered as a prize.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > books intended as gifts or prizes
presentation copy1753
prize book1798
souvenir1798
reward book1801
leaving book1829
gift-book1834
1798 Lackington, Allen & Co.'s Catal. 539 It is particularly Recommended to Masters of Schools, Teachers, &c. as a most excellent Prize Book for Scholars who are in the Higher Classes.
1839 C. Sinclair Holiday House xii. 274 Being the best scholar there [i.e. at school], he might..receive a whole library of prize-books.
1998 A. Fadiman Ex Libris (2000) 42 My scores wouldn't have earned me a prize book from the Sisters of the Holy Cross, but I confess to a small, retrograde flush of pride at not having utterly flunked.
prize fellow n. a person who holds a prize fellowship.
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1880 Times 10 July 8/5 First those whom he compendiously called prize Fellows, limited to a tenure of seven years; and secondly those who were called tutorial Fellows, who would hold office for 15 years.
1900 G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 170Prize fellows’ as they are ungracefully called, elected for seven years only.
1997 Polit. Theory 25 192 Stephen Mulhall is a former Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
prize fellowship n. a fellowship in a college awarded for achievement in an examination, as distinct from an official fellowship.
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1868 Resolutions passed by Trustees Columbia Coll. (Columbia Univ.) 158 (heading) Prize fellowships and scholarships. The following resolutions were presented by the president in the board of trustees, October 9, 1865.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 2/1 How entirely indefensible the existing prize-fellowship system is when judged from any but the narrowest point of view.
1982 Times 2 Feb. 12/5 He showed brilliant intellectual promise as a scholar of Eton and of New College, Oxford, and in 1924 he won a Prize Fellowship at All Souls.
prize-giving n. the action of giving out prizes; (also) a ceremony in which prizes are given out (as at the end of sporting event, school year, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > prize-giving
prize-giving1846
premiation1930
1789 T. Warton Let. 12 June in Corr. (1995) iv. 622 I..have been mu[ch hur]ried by sitting in judgement on prize-[givings and] college elections.]
1846 Daily News 30 Sept. 2/1 Mr. Walter's annual rural fête..presents a most pleasant contrast to the agricultural meetings... There was no prize-giving nonsense.
1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 124 Fortunately the school prize-giving was at hand.
1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys ii. 100 Prize-giving..didn't flow naturally out of what had gone before, as it does in a grammar school.
1992 Economist 9 May 70/3 President Cristiani, wearing a peace jacket for the prize-giving, said beamingly: ‘Sport has got us together like nothing else.’
prize list n. a list of prizes or prize winners in a competition.
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1779 Pennsylvania Gaz. 4 Aug. 4/1 The Drawing of the Second Class of the United States Lottery being finished, the Managers are getting the Prize Lists printed with all possible expedition.
1895 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Tribune 19 June Davenport..[is]possessed of considerable local pride, and there will be a great effort made to keep the watches and other valuables at the head of the prize list right here in the city.
1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock ii. 20 This success has been continued in recent years but the prize lists now usually include Charolais × Aberdeen-Angus crosses.
prize medal n. a medal offered or awarded as a prize.
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1733 E. Budgell Bee III. 1676 We shall give orders to have a Dye cut for our Prize-Medals, after the Design above-mentioned.
1829 Times 24 Nov. 2/3 Sir Gilbert Blane..has founded a prize medal for the best journal kept by the surgeons of His Majesty's navy.
1908 T. A. Cook Olympic Games i. 16 For all these gold, silver, and bronze prize medals have been allotted.
2005 Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi) (Nexis) 13 May 18 The first team to open the correct trunk was the winner and received prize medals to wear.
prize package n. (a) a package containing a prize; (also) a prize (from a contest, etc.) having various elements; a complete or comprehensive prize; (b) U.S. a wonderful or commendable person (frequently ironic).
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1870 Chicago Tribune 28 Dec. 4/2 These prize packages were said by him to contain sums of money.
1873 Christian Recorder 13 Feb. 5/1 Even the church..is sometimes found doing the work of the devil. Gift concerts, gift enterprises and raffles,..lotteries, prize-packages, etc., are all devices to obtain money without value received.
1881 T. H. Sayre Our Doctor iii. 69 It is too much to be slapped on the back, called old boy, and then told to keep it up. All by a pert chamber maid. She and Splinters are choice prize packages.
1952 N.Y. Times 9 May 20/4 Mr. Golden won the prize package.
2001 R. Yates Easter Parade 117 ‘Okay.’ He looked hurt. ‘Okay; I know I'm no prize package.’
prize pig n. (a) a pig offered or awarded as a prize; (b) a pig that wins or has won a prize in a competition; (c) a pig that is an excellent or outstanding example of its species (also figurative).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > prize-winning or inferior
prize pig1791
land pike1842
1791 E. Nairne Poems Misc. & Humorous 91 Hold a prize pig with soap on's tail!
1812 Sporting Mag. 40 270 Jemmy Hill claimed his prize-pig, but his competitors disputed his right.
1923 Times 9 Nov. 18/2 Three valuable van horses were burned to death. Fourteen pedigree prize pigs were saved.
1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 231/3 You don't know anything about this organization! Of course he's happy. He's their prize pig!
2005 East Grinstead Courier (Nexis) 16 June 8 Five hundred prize pigs and sheep, 400 cows and 1,000 horses vied for award-winning positions in the many competitions.
prize question n. a question set in a competition for which a prize is offered.
ΚΠ
1713 Ladies Diary 1 A new Prize-Question to be determined by Lots..to be drawn next Candlemas-day, that every one may have time to prepare and send their Answers.
1808 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 268 The subject of the tides was proposed as the prize-question by the Academy of Sciences in the year 1740.
1882 Helena (Montana) Independent 12 Feb. 1/6 As this is a simple question in permutation and every good arithmetic has the answer to it, I do not think it a good prize question.
2005 Northern Echo (Nexis) 15 Oct. 20 Announcing the week's £10,000 prize question, he quipped: ‘You'll be able to buy yourself a TV licence.’
prize roll n. = prize list n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > one who wins > one who wins a prize > roll or list of prize winners
prize roll1827
1827 Times 27 Sept. 3/2 This was chiefly the fault of the officers commanding regiments, who had delayed sending home the prize rolls.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. May 329/1 A medal can be verified occasionally if the prize-roll or some other collateral document is extant.
1960 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 11 Aug. 4/1 Pie, canned fruits, berries, vegetables from beans to dandelion and beet tops, all kinds of relishes, preserves—all are listed in the prize roll.

Derivatives

prizeworthy adj. worthy of being prized; meriting a prize.
ΚΠ
1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. lii. 194 It was euer held honorable and prizeworthy to appeare within Listes most gallant and fairest armed.
1859 Times 15 Dec. 6/3 He has also acquired a sure title to Staff employment in the widest and most prizeworthy sense.
1959 Listener 8 Jan. 76/3 One could hardly wait for the climax; when this one came it was exciting and certainly prizeworthy.
2002 Business Week (Nexis) 16 Dec. 31 Pruning would intensify the flavor of the remaining grapes and help transform the family's table wine into prizeworthy vintages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

prizen.2

Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/
Forms:

α. Middle English priis, Middle English pris, Middle English–1600s price, Middle English–1600s pryse, Middle English–1700s prise, 1500s pryce; Scottish pre-1700 price, pre-1700 pris, pre-1700 prise, pre-1700 pryce, pre-1700 pryese, pre-1700 pryis, pre-1700 pryise, pre-1700 prys, pre-1700 pryse, pre-1700 pryss, pre-1700 prysse.

β. late Middle English prisze, 1500s–1600s pryze, 1500s– prize.

Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: prise n.2; French prise.
Etymology: Either a sense development of prise n.2, or directly < its etymon French prise the action of taking, capture, especially the capture of a ship, the booty taken, a captured ship or cargo; subsequently (compare β forms) identified with prize n.1
1.
a. Something seized or captured by force, esp. in war; booty or plunder; a captive of war. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > defeated or conquered > [noun] > prisoner of war
prizec1330
prisonera1375
prison1438
prisoner of war1608
POW1903
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid > article of
prizec1330
booty1542
prizal1590
reprisal1598
α.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 5707 (MED) Þai..þat priis ladde at aise Toward þe cite of Caroaise.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 406 The heiere hond he [sc. Bacchus] hadde And victoire of his enemys, And torneth homward with his pris.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 53 I haue brouȝt hidir manye a greet price Hidir into helle of al kinde of man.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 240 Thei hadden gete the richest prise that euer was sein in her comynge.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 72 Returnit hame againe witht great pryce of men and goodis.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 135 Woulst thou maintaine in sure abode Thine owne prise, and sleight me of mine?
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely i. 40 To shelter the Prises which the Croats had taken from the Turks.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. iii. §154. 222 His Neighbour's Pigs and Hens used to be his Prise, when he could catch them.
β. c1460 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) I. 153 Thes bith the extorcions by takyng of priszes bi Robert Mayn watir baiily of Bristowe.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D3v His owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne. View more context for this quotation1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 69 Many have had the victory snatcht..and themselves become the dishonourable pryze of whome they had earst most honourably surpryz'd.1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1681) i. 55 For after we had got our paiks They took us every one as prizes.1726 Most Wonderful Wonder 6 He took Shipping afterwards with his Prize, and safely landed at Tower-Wharf.
b. A ship or ship's cargo captured legally in war. Also in figurative context. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > ship or property captured at sea
prize1493
α.
1493 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 291/1 Ane actioun..tuiching þe half of þe thrid parte of a schip callit a pris.
1512 in T. Rymer Fœdera (1712) XIII. 328/2 One Shippe Royall..with the Ordinance and Apparell of every such Prise that shall fortune to be taken by theym.
1588 R. Greene Perimedes sig. C Carrying away, both vessell and marriners as a pryse.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3v Desire my Pilot is, Beautie my prise . View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 188 Calicut, a great Citie ten leagues whence we tooke our price [(1638) 302 prize].
1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 24 Wee take every day some considerable pryses, which may pay for the warr.
β. c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 630 Alswa the said Admiral may constitute Procuratouris for him in the saidis jurisdictiounis, for conserving of his richtis of the tent part of the prizes upon the sea.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 51 The gallies..towing at their sternes three or foure little vessels no bigger then fisher boats. A ridiculous glory, and a prize to be ashamed of.1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 174 We were now 6 Sail, 2 Men of War, 2 Tenders, a Fireship, and the Prize.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 164 The Commodore ordered..his first Lieutenant, to take possession of the prize.1764 Impartial Hist. of Late Glorious War 257 Captain Mead contrived, by nailing a tarpaulin over the shot-holes of a small boat, to get a midshipman and six men on board the prize, and to receive the Captain of the ship..on board his own ship.1805 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. 195 At daylight got the end of the stream-cable on board the prize, and made sail with her in tow.1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. vii. 137 Steamers..would be the real prizes—if prizes are to be made at all.1916 Outlook 9 Aug. 823/2 Prizes cannot be brought into the waters of the United States for the purpose of laying up by a prize master.1939 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 33 449 The mere entry of a prize into a neutral port, on the same conditions as a belligerent warship, has not always been distinguished from the clearly illegal practice of..selling prizes in a neutral port.1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy ii. 45 The naming of captured enemy ships, or prizes, posed a problem.
2. The action of seizing or capturing plunder, a city, etc.; capture or seizure; an instance of this. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > with violence or forcibly
rapea1325
purchasec1325
prize1481
unappropriating1641
α.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) clxxxv. 271 (heading) Of the pryse and takynge of Iherusalem.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads iv. 332 Age, that all men overcomes, hath made his prise on thee.
1648 J. Raymond Itinerary Voy. Italy 77 Opposite to this is the Arch of Titus Vespasian, erected to him for his prise of Jerusalem.
β. 1642 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1826) (modernized text) II. 62 He said he got them by trade, but it was suspected he got them by prize.1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 253 This [sc. stealing of a bundle of plate, jewellery, etc.] was the greatest and the worst Prize that ever I was concern'd in.
3. As a mass noun.
a. Property seized in or as in war. Frequently with modifying word, as good, fair, free, lawful, etc., with reference to the legality of the seizure. Also figurative. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid
here-fengc1275
preya1325
wainc1330
spoila1340
ravinc1350
spoila1382
pillagea1393
forayc1425
booty1474
trophya1522
prize1522
sackage1609
boot-haling1622
free-booty1623
plunder1647
capture1706
loot1839
sack1859
1522 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 100 Quhill thai get a souer certification of the lordis quhidder gif the said schip was lauchtfull price or nocht.
1550 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 102 The samin schip and gudis..in caise scho wer nocht fund just prise.
1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 162 Decernyng the schippis and gudis..to be lauchfull pryse.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 185 [The junk] was good prize and worth the keeping.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 168 Plagiary Privateers, That all Mens Sense and Fancy seize, And make free Prize of what they please?
1748 T. Gray Ode Death Favourite Cat vii, in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 269 Not all that tempts your..heedless hearts, is lawful prize.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 496 Prize or not Prize, must be determined by Courts of Admiralty, belonging to the Power whose Subjects make the Capture.
1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 25 Enemy goods are lawful prize.
1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 80 In order fully to vest the property of a captured vessel in the captors..it is also necessary that it should have been condemned as prize, by legal sentence.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxii. 353 If the command was unheeded, a broadside followed, and the peaceful merchantman became lawful prize.
1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 286 On matters of prize the judgment could be looked to.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 207/1 The goods of a Portuguese subject..were awarded by the admiral as good prize to the English captors.
1987 William & Mary Q. 44 84 British officials had learned of Napoleon's Berlin Decree, which..declared all British-made products lawful prize even when owned by neutrals.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 94 74 The circumstances under which captured enemy vessels may be destroyed, in lieu of being subject to adjudication as prize following capture, or diversion, have been controversial.
b. to make prize (of): to confiscate, seize, or capture. Also figurative. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > capture or seize as prize
prizea1500
to make prize (of)1597
to pick up1687
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 177 A beauty-waining and distressed widow..Made prise and purchase of his lustfull eye. View more context for this quotation
1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 68 Diuerse ships..had beene taken at sea, and the goods therein made prize, and confiscate.
a1657 J. Balfour Hist. Wks. (1825) IV. 273 In respecte they had takin a shipe of his and made her pryce.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 10 We resolv'd to make Prize of it, as in a time of War.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne vi. 182 He made prize of all the good thoughts that came in his way.
1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers I. i. 43 The numerous inlets..afforded these desperadoes convenient concealment..while watching the departure of some outward bound trader, who, from its rich cargo, was worthy of making prize.
1934 G. N. Clark Later Stuarts 160 More than once squadrons of considerable force cruised in the Atlantic to make prize of merchant vessels.
1997 R. Silverberg Longest Voy. 416 A day later he [sc. O. van Noort] made prize of a Chinese sampan bound for Manila with a cargo of rice and lead.

Compounds

In historical contexts, with the sense ‘of or relating to booty, plunder, etc.; that has been seized or confiscated as a prize of war’.
C1.
prize brandy n.
ΚΠ
1670 J. Dryden & W. Davenant Shakespeare's Tempest ii. 18 This is prize-Brandy, we steal Custom, and it costs nothing.
1722 Rep. Sir Edmund Saunders I. 31 If the Brandies were Prize Brandies, the Part thereof is contained in the first Breach for selling seventy Tons, which had come to his hands in the joint Account.
1811 Times 9 Sept. 4/5 About 200 casks of prize brandy.
1998 L. M. Cullen Brandy Trade under Ancien Rigime vii. 201 Only the Guernsey houses, with an extensive business in prize wine and brandy from their successful privateering..maintained an interest in French wine and brandy.
prize cause n.
ΚΠ
1747 (title) Observations on the course of proceeding in Admiralty Courts in prize causes.
1818 Times 14 Mar. 2/3 The sort of payment for which he contended was recognized in one case, that of prize causes.
1988 William & Mary Q. 45 428 Jay consulted eminent counsel about procedure in prize causes in general..and about the condemnations at Martinique in particular.
prize goods n.
ΚΠ
1606 E. Scott Exact Disc. East Indians sig. M Two Dutch ships set saile for Holland, the one beeing a small ship, which had laden Pepper at Bantan, the other had taken in some Cloues at Tarnata, the rest of her lading was of prize goods, which was taken out of the ships which came from Cambaia.
1791 W. Fox Addr. People Great Brit. (ed. 6) 12 Thus, considering war as unlawful, they consider goods obtained through that medium, as criminally obtained, and will not suffer any of their members to purchase prize-goods.
1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. xvii. 334 I know of no other definition of prize goods..than that they are goods taken on high seas jure belli, out of the hands of the enemy.
1980 Eng. Hist. Rev. 95 901 Langley's part in the disposal of the prize goods from the captured Portuguese carrack Madre de Dios in 1592.
prize property n.
ΚΠ
1782 Jrnl. House of Representatives Commonw. Pennsylvania 426 The said marshal finds it impossible..to comply with the directions of the said act, enjoining him to make a division of the prize property among the captors.
1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career II. 183 I took the liberty of taking the rut and horse to camp as prize property.
1988 William & Mary Q. 45 433 Powerful West India merchants..had learned from their correspondents about proceedings with regard to prize property in the conquered islands.
prize ship n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder > taken in war or raid > maritime
prize ship1522
prize money1654
purchase1694
1522–3 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 213 The pris schip and gudis now laitlie taken be the Franchemen and brocht in the havyn..of Leith.
1673 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 144 The pryze shipp takine be Capitan Winster.
1710 Boston News-let. 26 June 2/2 On the said day arrived Her Majesties Ship the Feversham..with Col. Hunter, our Governour, and with him a Prize ship of 300 Tons.
1804 Times 16 Nov. 3/4 On the 13th of August last, John Morgan was appointed watch at midnight, on board a prize ship, called the Jacobina.
1997 Past & Present Feb. 58 Of 254 prize ships captured between 1589 and 1591, only 16 included gold and sliver as major items of cargo.
prize sugar n.
ΚΠ
1712 (title) Reasons humbly offer'd for the relief of several merchants, importers of prize sugars, indico, and cotton, from America.
1804 Times 21 Dec. 3/3 If you prefer to have them coopered by your own agents, take them away; you are at perfect liberty to do so. To this it might be answered, that prize sugars cannot be removed.
1997 Hist. Jrnl. 40 83 The refiners threatened to break the West Indian monopoly of the British sugar market when they sought permission to refine foreign ‘prize sugars’.
C2.
prize agency n. the sale of prizes taken in maritime war; the work of a prize agent.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > agents > function of
prize agency1779
1779 T. Baillie Appeal to Public 130/1 I was a Prize-agent in the beginning of the last war, and in the war preceding that; but as soon as I had the honour of being appointed one of the Secretaries of the Admiralty, I declined all Prize agency.
1802 Times 23 Dec. 2/3 When the clause relative to prize agency was read, the Duke of Clarence said, he thought a short bill on this subject would be better, and more effectual.
1995 Eng. Hist. Rev. 110 1083 T. Gutridge examines the introduction of central inspection of naval prize agency, 1793–1815.
prize agent n. an agent appointed for the sale of prizes taken in maritime war.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > agents
navy agent1765
prize agent1766
1766 Ann. Reg. 1765 88/1 The bill for obliging prize agents to account for unclaimed monies.
1802 Ld. Nelson Parl. Speech 21 Dec. in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 213 Transactions..with any of the boards or prize agents.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 15 May 22 Nelson, for whom patriotic pride came second only to the lure of the gold doubloon, never sailed without his personal prize agent.
prize court n. a department of the admiralty court which adjudicates in cases concerning prizes.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > courts dealing with maritime or river matters
water court1482
court of admiraltya1500
marine court1697
Court of the Watercourse1698
court of lodemanage1716
prize court1775
instance court1802
1775 Short View Lord High Admiral's Jurisdict. 4 In 1704, a draught of a commission for prize-courts in the West Indies, dated 1 April, was sent to Sir Charles Hedges.
1915 Daily Graphic 9 Dec. 4/2 The first Prize Court held in this country since the Crimean war sat on September 4th, 1914.
1989 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 43 122 Admiralties acted as prize-courts too.
prize crew n. a crew of seamen placed on board a prize ship to bring it into port.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > squad or crew for special duty > on captured ship
prize crew1808
1808 Gettysburg (Pa.) Centinel 10 Aug. A valuable British merchant ship, taken by a French privateer, was sent with a prize crew into Algeziras.
1916 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 3 Feb. 2/4 A small boat put out with a boarding party and in a short time a prize crew was in possession of the ship.
1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 32/2 When HMS Truant ordered the Tropic Sea to stop, the ship was scuttled by the German prize crew.
prize list n. a list of persons entitled to receive prize money on the capture of a ship.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > list of officers or sailors
muster-book1702
Navy Lista1770
prize list1782
reserved list1826
flag-list1873
inscription maritime1902
1782 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 558 Prize Lists.
1794 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 417 You want a Prize-List for one vessel taken by Tartar and myself.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Prize-list, a return of all the persons on board..at the time a capture is made; those who may be absent on duty are included.
2004 Washington Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. d5 Another of the former slaves, Daniel Brooks, coal heaver, later served on the Britannia, earning $20 a month, according to its ‘prize list’, when the ship helped capture the Blenheim, an English steamer, on Jan. 25, 1865.
prize master n. an officer appointed to command a prize ship.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > officer with specific duty > [noun] > master > commanding captured ship
prize master1653
1653 Weekly Intelligencer 17 May 849 The Governor of Tinmouth Castle,..having received no Orders how to dispose of them, nor allowance to give them, advised with the Prize-master about it.
1760 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1911) XLVII. 125 He put a Prize Master (as he called him) and three more of his Hands on board the Sloop.
1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXIV. 152/1 Louis was appointed prize-master of the Phœnix.
1997 Atlantic Monthly (Nexis) Apr. 120 Most of the action he encountered was off the Pacific coast of South America, where at one point he was appointed prize master of a captured vessel.
prize office n. an office dealing with the sale of prizes taken in maritime war.
ΚΠ
1653 R. Blake Declar. touching King of Scots 7 A List of 56 prizes are already brought into the Prize-Office.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Prize-Office, an Office appointed for the Sale of Ships taken from an Enemy as lawful Prize.
1840 Times 28 Mar. 7/3 He knew the prisoner, and had frequently seen him at the prize-office, when applications for prize-money were made there.
1984 Eng. Hist. Rev. 99 832 This is admittedly a dusky area, since we lack adequate studies of the High Court and of the Prize Office.
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prizen.3

Forms:

α. 1500s pryse, 1500s–1600s price, 1500s–1600s prise.

β. 1500s–1800s prize.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item.. Etymon: prize n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a transferred use of prize n.1With the possible sense development compare ancient Greek ἄθλον ‘the prize of a contest, a prize’, also ‘a contest’ (see athlete n.).
Obsolete.
1. A sporting contest, esp. a wrestling or fencing match. In later use: spec. a prizefight. Also figurative.Recorded earliest in to play a prize at sense 2a.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun]
match1531
bonspiel1560
prize1565
main1589
traverse1599
seta1626
tournament1762
fixture1825
tourney1890
roundup1912
rodeo1927
go-around1933
start1949
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > [noun] > prize-fight
prize1669
prizefighting1705
α.
1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 16v When ye masters of defence, came to play their prises, he [sc. Nero] would beholde them in his ring.
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 78 I meane not to condemne such publike games or prices as are appoynted by the Magistrate.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff6v His leg through his late luckelesse prise, Was crackt in twaine. View more context for this quotation
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xvi. 299 The people being gathered togither to behold the fencers prises, were fiftie thousand of them hurt and maimed..by the Amphitheatre that fell vpon them.
β. 1587 M. Grove Most Famous Hist. Pelops & Hippodamia sig. A.ivv Onomaus..proclaymed a prize of running with Chariots, that whosoeuer did vanquish him therin, should marry Hippodamia.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 141 Like one of two contending in a prize That thinks he hath done well in peoples eyes. View more context for this quotation1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 57 The Prize was now well begun, concerning the Popes power in England.1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Apr. (1976) IX. 516 Here we saw a prize fought between a soldier and a country fellow.1711 London Gaz. No. 4886/4 Has fought several Prizes, setting up for Master of Defence.1711 tr. S. Werenfels Disc. Logomachys i. 2 Instead of debating the Matter with Moderation like Scholars and Gentlemen, we rather seem to fight Prizes like Fellows in a Bear-Garden.1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. ii. 51 I..have fought prizes.1835 R. Browning Paracelsus iv. 156 While we fight the prize, Troop you in safety to the snug back-seats.1909 N.E.D. at Prizer 2 One who engages in a ‘prize’ or contest.]
2.
a. to play a prize: to engage in a sporting contest, esp. a fencing match (also figurative). to play one's prize (figurative): to play one's part; to hold one's own. See also master-prize n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > take part in match or competition [verb (intransitive)] > engage in match or competition
to play a prize1565
to go in1822
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something > play one's part
to play one's prize1565
to do one's stuff1663
to pull one's weight1878
to stand one's corner1878
α. 1565 [see sense 1α. ].
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B3v Ieatting vp and downe like the Usher of a Fense-schoole about to playe his Pryse.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. ii. sig. L2 Thou 'hast playd thy prise, my precious Mosca. View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 197 This base carnality plaies her prises one way or other, and dares act her part upon Gods stage.
β. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 396 So Bascianus, you haue plaid your prize, God giue you ioy sir of your gallant Bride.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. A2v Dick of the Cow..who plaid his prizes with the Lord Iockey so brauely.1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 206 When the Prizes of Germanicus Cæsar were played; there were many Elephantes which acted strange feates or partes.1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. H3v A woman Fencer, that has plaid a Prize, It seemes, with Losse of blood.a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 147 Attributed to the Chairman's dexterity, who could play his prize in all weapons.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 611 No trivial Prize is play'd; for on the Life Or Death of Turnus, now depends the Strife.c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. Pref. 3 The whole People came there together, to see the Athletes (or Fencers and Wrestlers) play their prizes.1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 115 We lay together that night, when after playing repeated prizes of pleasure, nature overspent, and satisfy'd, gave us up to the arms of sleep.
b. to run a prize: to compete in a race. rare.
ΚΠ
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. xx. 295 That yeare were erected in the great race called Circus, the Barriers, from whence the horses and their chariots are let forth, when they run their prices.
c. to fight a prize: to enter into a duel, sporting competition, gladiatorial contest, etc.; spec. to engage in a prizefight.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fight [verb (intransitive)] > prize-fight
to fight a prize1662
1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker 5 Goodwit What wilt thou say thy Master fought a prize? Dick I mean that to the field he challeng'd him At twenty weapons, came off clear at all.
1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 22 When all your Friends lay strong Devices, And get a fame by fighting Prizes, This for your honour we'll intrench, That you betray'd a silly Wench.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant vii. 8 A Circus or Amphitheatre, wherein Prizes were anciently Fought.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit iv. 9 He..went about through all the Country Fairs challenging People to fight Prizes, Wrestling and Cudgel-Play.
1764 Bloody Reg. I. 66 He had made it his business to fight prizes, an exercise which the pride of his heart carried him to, and which he now looked upon as heathenish and barbarous.

Compounds

prize-playing adj. Obsolete rare won in a sporting or gladiatorial contest.
ΚΠ
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 36 Our nointed clowne prize-playing ornaments Or a poore basket-scrambling gown contents [L. Rusticus ille tuus sumit trechedipna, Quirine, Et ceromatico fert niceteria collo].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

prizev.1

Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/
Forms:

α. Middle English prist (past participle, in a late copy), Middle English pysed (past tense, transmission error), Middle English–1500s pryse, Middle English–1600s prise, 1500s prese, 1500s–1600s prisde (past tense and past participle), 1600s (1800s– English regional (Somerset)) praise, 1800s– (English regional (south-western)) prise; Scottish pre-1700 preis, pre-1700 prese, pre-1700 preys, pre-1700 pris, pre-1700 priss, pre-1700 prissit (past participle), pre-1700 pryis, pre-1700 pryiss, pre-1700 prys, pre-1700 pryss, pre-1700 prysse, pre-1700 1700s prise, pre-1700 1700s pryse.

β. 1500s–1600s prizde (past tense and past participle), 1500s–1700s pryze, 1500s– prize.

See also price v.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French prisier.
Etymology: < Middle French prisier, priser to value, to make a valuation of, to esteem, to praise (see praise v. ). In early use there is no clear semantic distinction between this verb and praise v. (see discussion at that entry). Subsequently, a further differentiation occurred between this verb and price v. (see discussion at that entry).In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix).
I. Senses relating to valuing or estimating.
1.
a. transitive. To estimate or establish the monetary value of; to fix or state the price of. Cf. appraise v., and price v. 1. Now English regional and rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > attach a price to [verb (transitive)] > set or fix price (of)
loveOE
prizea1325
setc1420
make1423
cheapa1464
price1471
ratify1511
to set up?1529
apprize1533
rate1599
to set down1599
pitch1624
tax1846
to charge1889
sale-price1959
α.
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 7 Þe godes sullen bileue to þe king, ant sullen ben iprised bi þe schirreue.
c1400 Lawys of Schippis (Bute) c. 29 The skathys aucht to be prysyt and partyt betwx the twa schyppis.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 414 Prysyn, or settyn a pryce, taxo, metaxo.
1478 in J. Dalyell & J. Beveridge Binns Papers (1938) 7 That all the housis..to be prisit now be lele trew men.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 666/2 I prise ware, I sette a price of a thyng what it is worthe, je aprise.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 254 Thair may thow sell..als deir as thow will prys.
1611 Bible (King James) Zech. xi. 13 A goodly price, that I was prised at. View more context for this quotation
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. x. iv. 1709 (margin) There Pearles are prised according to the Caracts which they weigh.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 2 June (1973) II. 717 Owen took a Cow of Veisy pris'd at £4.0-0.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Praise I do praise thick yeffer in vourteen poun', and I wid'n zill 'n vor no less.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 118 Prise, to appraise.
β. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. M4 The Romanes prized this fish at a wonderfull high rate.1623 R. Whitbourne Disc. New-found-land 59 [They] were there prized to be worth two shillings sixepence apiece.1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 442 I will procure you one of the Catalogues of Manuscripts, which is prized by the Delegates of our Press, at One Pound Two Shillings.1709 J. Hughes Tatler No. 113. ⁋26 The Whole [goods] are to be set up and prized by Charles Bubbleboy, who is to open the Auction with a Speech.1768 S. Johnson Let. 28 May (1992) I. 308 Things..which are prized at high rate by wantonness rather than by use.1814 P. Graham Gen. View Agric. Kinross & Clackmannan 34 Sometimes they are prized over to the tenant at his entry, and are again prized at his removal; and he pays the difference of these apprizements.1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas ix. 138 Father says he shall have the damage done to the cornfield prized, go and present it and get pay.a1903 E. H. Goddard in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 624/2 [Wiltshire] A come and seed the ship an prized un.
b. transitive. To stake, hazard. (In quot. figurative.) Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > stake something in game
play?a1425
hazard1529
stoopc1555
to stake down1565
prizea1592
stake1591
gamble1813
buck1851
chip1857
to chip in1892
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. Hv Th'art worthie of the title of a squire: That durst for proofe of thy affection, And for thy mistresse fauour prize thy bloud.
c. transitive. To offer a price for; to bid for. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > bid for or offer to buy
bidc1200
cheap?c1225
cheapen1574
prize1592
licitate1601
to declare for1669
1592 Countess of Pembroke tr. R. Garnier Antonius ii. sig. G2v But terror here and horror, nought is seene: And present death prizing our life each hower [Fr. Et la presente mort nous marchande à tous coups].
2.
a. transitive. To value or esteem highly; to think much of, care for.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [verb (transitive)]
haveeOE
weenc1000
praisec1250
setc1374
set by1393
endaunt1399
prizec1400
reverencec1400
tender1439
repute1445
to have (also make, take) regard to or that1457
to take, make, set (no) count of (upon, by)c1475
pricec1480
to make (great, etc.) account (also count, esteem, estimation, reckoning, regard, store) of1483
force1509
to look upon ——c1515
to have (also hold) in estimationc1522
to make reckoning of1525
esteem1530
regard1533
to tell, make, hold, set (great, little, no) store of1540
value1549
to make dainty of (anything)1555
reckon1576
to be struck on1602
agrade1611
respect1613
beteem1627
appreciate1648
to put, set (an) esteem, a high, low esteem upon1665
to think small beer of1816
to think the world of1826
existimate1847
reckon1919
rate1973
α.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1131 (MED) Best watz he, blyþest, moste to pryse, Þat euer I herde of speche spent.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4960 Eelde can ageyn restreyne From sich foly..But yvell she spendith hir servise, For no man wole hir love neither prise.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 239 And suld think fredome mar to prys Than all the gold in warld that is.
a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 101 (MED) Ðis ston is most Iprysed in þe lapidary.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. diiv I aught as prynce him to prise for his prouese.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 122 Ignorance is prisit, prudens is scornit.
c1615 W. Mure Sonnets ix In bewty, (loue's sueit object), ravischt sight Doth some peculiar perfectioun pryse [rhyme lyes].
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. iii. sig. Nn4v That we..prise many [customs] of our own onely because we never consider'd them.
β. 1588 A. Munday tr. Palmerin D'Oliua 109 Heereof perswade your selfe good Knight, that to haue you, I refuse all other good fortunes whatsoeuer: and therefore I care not though it were openlie knowne, how especiallie I prize, desire, loue and esteeme you.c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxix. 64 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 236 My god, how I these studies prize, That doe thy hidden workings show!1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxliii. sig. I2v Not prizing her poore infants discontent.1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner vi. 136 A blessing that cannot be sufficiently prized.1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxxv. 583 When we would express the value of a thing, we say, we prize it as our eyes.a1691 G. Fox Jrnl. (1952) (modernized text) iii. 55 Prize your time now while you have it.1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 237 I..prize at equal rate Thy short-liv'd Friendship, and thy groundless Hate.1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman viii. 312 In proportion as this regard for the reputation of chastity is prized by women, it is despised by men.1849 S. C. Brees Guide & Descr. N.Z. 29 The wood..is prized by the bushmen for axe-handles.1891 Speaker 11 July 36/2 The Swiss seem more and more to prize..the Referendum and the Initiative.1921 Amer. Woman Jan. 20/3 She told him how highly she prized his opinion, and he was a man of such splendid judgment.1952 J. Downs Amer. Furnit. p. xxxii A tiger-stripe pattern much prized by collectors.1990 Gardener Nov. 70/1 The first new potatoes and those early, sugar-sweet garden peas are prized above jewels.
b. transitive. To estimate the value of (in relative rather than monetary terms; cf. sense 1a); to esteem or account as worth a particular amount; to reckon. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [verb (transitive)]
pricec1480
prize1487
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > place value on
apprizea1400
counta1400
prize1487
valure1487
reckonc1515
even1571
valuate1588
value1589
rate1599
seta1616
ventilate?c1682
eventilate1706
appreciate1769
α.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 505 He wald nocht pris his liff a stra, With-thi he vengeans on hym mycht ta.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 88 A prodigall man I am so prysit.
a1574 Earl of Glencairn in J. Knox Wks. (1846) I. 73 Our stait hypocrisie they prysse,..Sayand, That we are heretikes.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. C3 Yf on my beauty take yt if thou canst, Though litle I do prise it ten tymes lesse.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 90 Hauing so swift and excellent a wit, As she is prisde to haue. View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vii. 38 I am thy brother, and thy life, with mine is euenly prisde.
1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. vii Devysing, and prysing, Freidom at ony rate.
β. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ix. xiv. 125 He in himself priz'd things as mean and base, Which yet in others great and glorious seem'd.1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxv. 230 Oh that their profession were but as highly prized, as their estate is valued.
3. transitive. To be equal in value to. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 175 How can we thee requite for all this good? Or what can prize that thy most precious blood?
II. Senses relating to praise or commendation.
4. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To laud or extol; to commend the merits or excellence of; = praise v. 1. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)]
heryc735
mickleeOE
loveOE
praise?c1225
upraisea1300
alosec1300
commenda1340
allow1340
laud1377
lose1377
avauntc1380
magnifya1382
enhancea1400
roosea1400
recommendc1400
recommanda1413
to bear up?a1425
exalt1430
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
laudifyc1470
gloryc1475
advance1483
to bear out1485
prizec1485
to be or to have in laudationa1500
joya1500
extol1509
collaud1512
concend?1521
solemnize?1521
celebrate1522
stellify1523
to set up1535
well-word1547
predicate1552
glorify1557
to set forth1565
admire1566
to be up with1592
voice1594
magnificate1598
plaud1598
concelebrate1599
encomionize1599
to con laud1602
applauda1616
panegyrize1617
acclamate1624
to set offa1625
acclaim1626
raise1645
complement1649
encomiate1651
voguec1661
phrase1675
to set out1688
Alexander1700
talk1723
panegyricize1777
bemouth1799
eulogizea1810
rhapsodize1819
crack up1829
rhapsody1847
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 9 Ilke man did sum thing, yat was mekle to lowe, and to pris.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 776 Of this deid,..The Erll wes prisit gretumly.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 239 Sic ladyis wyis Thay ar to pryis.
1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1991) I. v. 16 Gif him all thankis..And pryse his name with all ȝour micht.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prizev.2

Brit. /prʌɪz/, U.S. /praɪz/
Forms:

α. late Middle English–1600s prise, 1500s prease (Scottish), 1500s pryse.

β. 1500s– prize, 1500s–1600s prizde (past participle).

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prize n.2
Etymology: < prize n.2
1. transitive. To seize, take, or capture, esp. in war; to confiscate. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > by (public) authority
achete?a1439
encheata1464
confisk1474
prizea1500
sequestera1513
confiscatea1533
distraina1616
expropriate1875
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > capture or seize as prize
prizea1500
to make prize (of)1597
to pick up1687
α.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 670 (MED) Pharien of Trebes and leonce of Paierne com that wey for to prise [Fr. prendre] the Castell.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. iii. F All people..which speake eny blasphemy agaynst the God of Sydrac, Misac and Abdenago, shal dye, and their houses shalbe prysed.
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xviii. 166 If any bee afterward found offending,..their armour and weapon shall be prised,..to the use of the Queene.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xi. 385 To kill the five Hippasides And prise their arms.
β. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lv. 247 The Queene of Scots from Ours almost her Crowne & life had priz'de.1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 447 Nickie Ben will prize you, And yomf ye head foremost to hell.
2. transitive. spec. To seize (a ship or ship's cargo), esp. as a prize of war. Also occasionally intransitive. Now historical and rare.
ΚΠ
α.
1568 C. Watson tr. Polybius Hystories f. 60v The Romans being both more in number and valianter men, prised her [sc. the Rhodians' ship] without labour and toke the Rhodian.
1591 T. James Let. 14 Sept. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) III. 191 The one [ship]..being prised near Silley, by a ship of which I am part owner.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 145 If it happen a Ship to be prised for debt or otherwise to bee forfeited, yet the Mariners hire is to be payed.
β. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander f. 80v They discomfited all the whole Nauie, and prized their shippes, and the greater numbre of their men.?a1699 T. Neale Abstr. Sea-Laws 33 If it happen that the Ship shou'd be Prized or Confiscated, yet the Mariners are to receive their Wages.1886 American 12 67 It was explained that the David J. Adams was prized for concealing her name and her sailing-port.1909 Eng. Hist. Rev. 24 677 The captors' right to prize being derived from the crown, the crown decided what was and what was not good prize. In 1297 an enemy ship arrested before war was declared was restored by order of the king.1938 Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. 6 55 In 1755, Wall had..succeeded in accommodating the long-standing dispute over British ships prized because of suspected illicit trade in the Caribbean.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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