Lexic.us

Definition of Prizing

1. n. The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

Definition of Prizing

1. Verb. (present participle of prize) ¹

2. Verb. (obsolete) prizefighting (qualifier abbreviation) ¹

3. Noun. (philosophy) The act or state of prizing something, valuing it highly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prizing

1. prize [v] - See also: prize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prizing

Literary usage of Prizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Reply to the Essay on Population, by the Rev. T.R. Malthus: In a Series of by William Hazlitt (1807)
"The lazy and unthinking would not do half the mischief, of which they are capable, without the active, the enter- prizing and turbulent ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"... us from the past, And prizing more than Plato things 1 learned At that best Academe, a mother's knee. Thrice in my life, perhaps, have truly prayed. ..."

3. The Story of the Cigarette by William Wesley Young (1916)
"METHOD OF "prizing" DOMESTIC TOBACCO After it is redried and "reordered" the tobacco is firmly pressed, or prized," into hogsheads by a hydraulic press, ..."

4. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"The true value of a friend; and the fault of ovey-prizing him. THOU hast lost thy friend:—The sorrow is just; the earth hath nothing more precious, ..."

5. Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White: Prepared Agreeably to a Resolution of by James Walker (1863)
"With such companions, one never need feel alone, and may well feel justified in prizing their society above any other. Yet few have more reason to bless God ..."

6. Memoir of Hon. Daniel Appleton White: Prepared Agreeably to a Resolution of by James Walker (1863)
"With such companions, one never need feel alone, and may well feel justified in prizing their society above any other. Yet few have more reason to bless God ..."

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