disprize
English edit
Etymology edit
From dis- + prize. Doublet of dispraise.
Verb edit
disprize (third-person singular simple present disprizes, present participle disprizing, simple past and past participle disprized)
- (transitive, archaic) To depreciate.
- a. 1687, Charles Cotton, Ode to Lydia:
- Dishevel sweet thy yellow hair, / Whose ray does burnish'd gold disprize.