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apprizer en · NOUN

Etymology

From apprize + -er.

Meanings

1. An appraiser.
2. (qualifier:Scots law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
   • The apprizer, therefore (as the holder of a mortgage was then called), entered upon possession, and, in the language of Hotspur, “came me cranking in” 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

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