estimationn.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxii. 5 If eny man harme feeld..what euer best thing he hath in his feeld..he shal restore for estymacioun of the harm [L. pro damni æstimatione; a1425 the valu of harm].

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. ix. 62 The prys of myn Appel is of suche valewe that it passeth the estymacion of ony creature.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xiii. 13 They had syluer for theyr horses..at theyre owne estymation, without any grudgyng.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings viii. 5 They immolated sheepe and oxen without estimation and number.

1667 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. ii. 158 Silver and gold have been chosen to be the Instruments of Exchange and Estimation of all Things.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 225 In the houshold book of Henry..there are two different estimations of wheat. View more context for this quotation

1792 A. Young Trav. France 499 The Bureau de la Balance du Commerce at Paris..is beyond all comparison more accurate in its estimations [than the English Custom-house.]

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Rv They be wrought so fynely and connyngly..that the estimacion of no costelye stuffe is able to counteruaile the price of the worke.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 89 Your Ring may be stolne too, so your brace of vnprizeable Estimations, the one is but fraile, and the other Casuall. View more context for this quotation

1631 T. May tr. J. Barclay Mirrour of Mindes i. 245 The earth in the bowels of it hath many metalls, both of different natures and estimations.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 41 For some thing, in their opinion, of more estimation.

c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 82 As rising of an hie estimacion of our self.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 34 If he desyre that his writynges shulde be had in any estymacion.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 268 So farre from having monie in estimation..I have cast it away from me.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 17 He holds it a kind of Self-Preservation to maintain a good Estimation of himself.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 456. ⁋5 Mens Estimation follows us according to the Company we keep.

1787 Canning in Microcosm No. 18 Wishing to know in what estimation he was held by man~kind.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening i. 1 It is..the design of the present section, to shew the degree of estimation that the art of Gardening is worthy of.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxvii. 273 Mr. Dombey is so generous in his estimation of any trivial accomplishment.

1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxi. 156 The Provincial Press of Great Britain never stood higher in public estimation than it stands to-day.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 300 Any auctour of estymation.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Gv The frute..leseth his verdure and taste, and finally his estimation.

1569 J. Rogers Glasse Godly Love 185 How in estimacion a chaste life is.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxi. 6) Gods miracles growe out of estimacion with us by custome.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 141 The name of this place [sc. Hyde]..led me..to thinke that it had beene of more estimation in tyme past.

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 14 His brother..indeuord to take from mee all estimation of Arte or witte.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxiv. 268 To auoyde carefully..whatsoeuer may diminish his estimation and authority.

1767 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Chron. 25 May–1 June 73/3 Gold and Silver have..universal Estimation.

1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 544 A miserable populace, without property, without estimation, without education.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xiii. 179 The family of every criminal is a loser in estimation..by his punishment, however just.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 27 The sole virtue of our commonweal, its strength, and its estimation, lay among the burgher craft of the better class.

c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) v. 41 That Tour..was of 25 myle in cyrcuyt of the Walles..as Men may demen by estymatioun.

1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 8 To þe noumbre of iiij^xx and more by estimacion.

1473 J. Warkworth Chron. 5 A blasynge sterre..iiij. fote highe by estimacyone.

1558 Dunkyn's Mortgage to Vicary in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. v. 182 Three..parcells of pasture grounde..conteyning by estimacion eightene acres.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 160 If a ship sail 8 Miles South in an Hour, by Log or Estimation.

1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 86 The proper estimation of the expence.

1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 9 The distance of the nearest threads became a very visible space, answerable to one minute each, and therefore capable of a much further subdivision by estimation.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 128 That which we call estimation means guess formed by a person whose previous habits and experience are such as to make it very likely that he can tell nearly true that which would require instruments to obtain with great approach to accuracy.

1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.vi^v There shall be set brede trenchours and spones after the estymacyon of them that shall syt there.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. iv. 125 Þou hast quod she þe ryȝt estimacioun of þis.

c1400 Test. Love i, in Chalmers Eng. Poets 474/1 Thestimacion of the enuious people, ne loketh nothing to desertes of men..but onely to the auenture of fortune.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) Introd. 6 Be the blyssyd medyacyoun Of this virgyne aftyr my estimacyoun.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xx^v Reuchline in the defence of his estimation, aunswereth him [sc. Phefercorn] with another.

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 181 He that walketh uprightly..is sure not to come off disgracefully..in the estimations of men.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 39 The crown..in the..estimation of law..had ever been, perfectly irresponsible. View more context for this quotation

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 88 The dearest of men in my estimation.

1864 I. Taylor Words & Places 469 In popular estimation, idle and vagabond habits were acquired by those who made the pilgrimage to the..Holy Land.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 266 I speake not this in estimation, As what I thinke might be, but what I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set downe. View more context for this quotation