different between price vs indictment

English

Alternative forms

• prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?s
• (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA^(key): /p?a?s/
• (Canadian raising): IPA^(key): /p???s/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10

     Her price is far above rubies.

   • new treasures still, of countless price

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Descendants

• ? Irish: praghas

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Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

   to price eggs

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Latin

Noun

price

1. ablative singular of prex

English

Alternative forms

• endictment

Etymology

18th-century Latinized respelling of Middle English endytement (“action of accusing”), from Anglo-Norman enditement, from enditer, from Late Latin indict?re, from Latin indictus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?da?t.m?nt/

Noun

indictment (countable and uncountable, plural indictments)

1. (law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury. [from 14th c.]
2. (law) The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment. [from 16th c.]
3. (countable, uncountable) An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation. [from 19th c.]
4. Evidence of failure or poor performance.

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See also

• grand jury
• plea, pleading

References

• indictment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia