Word Meanings - BEPRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

Related words: (words related to BEPRAISE)

• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• EXTRAVAGANTLY
  In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• PRAISEFUL
  Praiseworthy.
• PRAISEWORTHY
  Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.
• GOLDSMITH
  1. An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold. 2. A banker. Note: The goldsmiths of London formerly received money on deposit because they were prepared to keep it safely. Goldsmith beetle , a large, bright yellow, American
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• DISPRAISER
  One who blames or dispraises.
• APPRAISEMENT
  The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.
• UNDERPRAISE
  To praise below desert.
• MISPRAISE
  To praise amiss.
• SELF-PRAISE
  Praise of one's self.
• DISPRAISE
  To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.
• UPRAISE
  To raise; to lift up.