Word Meanings - SUPERPRAISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.

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• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• 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.
• SWEARING
  from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• PRAISEFUL
  Praiseworthy.
• SWEAR
  To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. 3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
• PRAISEWORTHY
  Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• MISWEAR
  To wear ill. Bacon.
• 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.
• FORSWEAR
  1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden.
• 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.