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ˌunderˈrate, v.
[under-1 10 a.]
†1. trans. To depreciate, lower. Obs. rare.
a1623Buck Rich. III, iii. (1646) 90 Dispatching Doctor William Warkam..to under-rate his credit with those Princes. 1649Lovelace Poems 69 He..under-rates himself below mankinde.
2. To assess or tax († lower or) too low.
1641Rates for Poll-money, Such as are under-rated of what they were in the former Subsidies. 1753Act 26 Geo. II, c. 17 §14 As often as they shall find any Person..to have been under-rated.
3. To rate or estimate at too low a value or worth; to undervalue.
1650E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 3 Though Mr. Bullocke be pleased to under-rate it [sc. wheat] at halfe the crowne the bushell. 1712Steele Spect. No. 272 ⁋1 [She] so over-valued her self and under-rated all her Pretenders. 1774Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I. 126 We do not, however, mean to underrate those aids. 1831D. E. Williams Life & Corr. Sir T. Lawrence II. 393 In the following passage, Sir Thomas..greatly under-rates his own talents. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 337 [They have] underrated the views of their opponents.
refl.1854Whately Common-pl. Bk. (1864) 150 And one condition, I think, of forgiveness is to appear, or at least pretend to underrate yourself. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. x. 246 Helena's affection prompts her to overrate the man she loves, and to underrate herself.
4. To under-estimate in amount or extent.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. 35 He made an interest with his Lord's Debtors, by under-rating their Accounts. 1802Playfair Illustr. Hutton. Th. 348 If we call it one fourth of the whole surface, its extent is certainly not under-rated. 1844Kinglake Eothen iii, I had enormously misjudged its distance and underrated its height. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 358 Nearly every author I have seen, underrates the consumption of wheat in England during the middle ages.
Hence ˌunderˈrating vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˌunderˈratement.
1599Daniel Musoph. Wks. (1602) C ij b, Bring not downe the prizes of the minde With vnder-rating of your selues so base. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 76. 1/1 Affront him not by an Under-ratement of his Merits. 1721E. Erskine Wks. (1791) 78/1 It implies low and under-rating thoughts of ourselves. |