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VALUE. 29 VALUE,
hym no^t . . jtg value of a kerse. c 1386 Chaucer Shipman's
T. 171 He is noght worth at al In no degree the value of a
flye. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 17506, I 3eue right not of alle
\\\& tene, Not the value of a bene. cx4as Wyntoun Crt;;*.
VI. xviii. 2170, I cowntyt noucht )« xo^xc twa Wicis be
walew of a stra. 1798 Wordsw. P. Bell 239 But not the
value of a hair Was heart or head the belter.
c. The extent or amount of a specified standard
or measure of length, quantity, etc. Now only dial,
itioo SuRFLET Countrit Famte 111. vi. 433 They must be
sharpened like a stake for the value of the length of halfe a
foote. 173X P. Miller Card, Diet, s.v. Sap^ Flowing out
very plentifully, .to the Value of several Gallons in a few
Days. 1764 Museum Rust. II. i. 10 Give each of them the
value of three large table spoonfuls of the mixture for a
dose. 179X Mrs. Radcliffe Rom, Forest (1820) 1. 67, I
jogged on, near the value of a leaguA, I warrant, and then
I came to a track. 1794 — Myst. Udolpho lii. They stood
in the same posture for the value of a minute. 1818
WiLBRAHAM Ckesk. Gloss. S.V., When you come to the value
of five feet deep. 1S54 Miss Baker Northampt. Gloss. 374
There was only the vally of a bushel of apples in all the
orchard. Ibid. , Dig down to the vally of seven or eight feet.
II. t5. Worth or worthiness (of persons) in
respect of rank or personal qualities. 'Ods.
c IJ30 R. Bkvssk CArort. Jf'at* (Rolls) 491 1 Alleofvalow,
moste & leste, Suld com to London to his feste. 1338 —
Chron. (1810) 100 f>erfor be duke himdight, as man ofgrete
value. C1386 Chaucer ParsotCs T. F398 Insolent is he l>at
dispisith in his lugement alle o^r folk as to regard of his
vaheu. c 1400 Bntt 248 Eueryche of ham hade ful riche
5iftes, euery man as he was of value and of State, c 14*5
WvsTOUN Cron. iL viii. 721 pai ^at duelt that ile wi> in
War sottis wylde of na walew. 1483 Caxton Caio Aiiij,
Thou oughtest to gyue place to hym that is gretter and
more of valewe than thou arte. 1590 Greene Mourn.
Garm. Wlcs. (Grosart) IX. 154 Some were Caualiers, and
men of great value, a 1639 Wotton in Relig. (1651) 484 A
young Widow of value : Who lately dying.. left order by
Will that her body should be buried in her dwelling Pariso.
t b. Worth or efficacy in combat or warfare
manliness, valour. Obs,
1590 Spenser F. Q, m. vi, 29 Who.. his sword forth drew,
And him with equal! value counteruayld. X59X Harington
OrL Fur. xxxiv. xii, Alceste by his value brought My father
and his friends to such distress. x6x4 Lodge Seneca 7 The
Emperour. .giveth a chaine of gold to some one souldier of
hb that approved his valew in some difficult enterprise.
6. The relative status of a thing, or the estimate
in which it is held, according to its real or supposed
worth, usefulness, or importance.
£1380 Wyclif i'^/. IV^ks. I. 195 Oure bilcve techij? as J?at
God kepij? Hngis after her valu, for if ony )»ing be bctere,
God makijf it to be betert c X385 Chaucer L. G. ly. 602
Cleapatra, Loue hadde brought this man in swich a rage..
That al the world he sette at no value. 1470-85 Malory
A riAur II. u.j8 Your bounte. .may no manpreyse half to the
valewe. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus 1. 68 These words with
Cyrus came in at one eare and went out at the other, lighter
in value then the wynd in waight. 1(^1 Hobbes Leviath,
I. X. 42 [Let men] rate themselves at the highest Value they
can ; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by
others. X779 Mirror No. 5. 33 It unfortunately happen*:,
that we are very inadequate judges of the value of our own
discourse. iSaS Duppa Trav. Italvy etc. 21 These landscapes
have no value but as being the earliest attempts to
represent scenes from nature. 1844 H. H. Wilson Brit,
India I. 217 Attaching to its commerce and alliance more
value than belonged to either. X884 J. Gilmour Mongolt
xvii. 205 Buddhism . . tells him that each prayer repeated has
a certain value in cleansing away sin.
attrib. X899 Garvie Ritschlinn Thiol. 176 The theoretical
judgments cannot give an intelligible unity to the worta>
whole, but the value-judgments can.
b. In the phr. o/{,.) value, (Cf. 3.)
1375 Barbour Brttce i. 372 Quhar it fail^eys, na wertu
May be off price, na oflf valu. 1396-7 in Eng. Hist, Rev,
(1907) XXII. 209 pe correlari is be preyere of ualue springand
out of parfyth charite. 1423 Yonge tr. Secreia Secret,
171 That appartenyth to a feynte herte to lowe myche a
thynge of lytill walue. 1555 EoEN Decades (Arb.) 133 Vf
this opinion bee of anye value. 1849 James IVoodmeut \\\j
There may be news of value indeed. X855 Brewster Life
0/ Newton II. xviii. 166 Obser\-ations of such value, that
without them they could not proceed in their researches.
c. To set a . . value on or upon^ to estimate at
a specified rate.
xeji Hobbes Leviath. n. xviii. 92 Considering what values
men are naturally apt to set upon themselves. 1693 Locke
Ediic, 563 But the Backwardness Parents shew in divulging
their Faults, will make them set a greater Value on their
Credit themselves, a 1763 W. King Pol. if Lit, Amcd.
(1819) 101 My Lord Hardwick..who is said to be worth
800,000/. sets the same value on half a crown now as be did
when he was only worth one hundred. X78a Burke Corr.
(1844) III. 7 You set too much value on the few and slight
services, that I have been able to perform. lZ^^CoM^T. Diges*
tioH 260 No one who sets any value on the lives of his horses
or dogs ever allows it to be disregarded. x868 J. H. Blunt
Re/. Ck. Eng. I, 64 Wolsey set much value upon the study
of Greek. 1890 Comhill Ma^. Oct. 365, I must see what
value the kahr sets on his services.
t d. Estimate or opinion of^ likingy^/-, a person
or thing. Obs,
(a) X65J LovEDAY tr. Calprenedc's Cassandra in. 232 Thus
parted those two great men, preserving in their soules such
a value of one another as you may easily imagine. 1677 in
Clevelancts Poems Ep. Ded., Such competent Judges,.. in
whose ju5t value of bun Cleveland shall live. .the pattern
of succeeding Ages.
ib) x686 tr, Chardin*s Trav. Persia 204 He has a very
great Value for her by reason of her great Estate. 1709
Steele Taller "So, j-i F5 Nay, child, do not be troubled
that I take Notice ofit 1 my Value for you made me speak it.
X749 Fielding Tom Jones xiv. v. 1 must esteem one for
whom I know M*^. Allwortby batli so much value. 1773
Life N. Froiude 182 In a few days she conceived a Value
for me, which she expressed in the warmest Terms, 1794
Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 434 Men of learning have always
had a proper value for the Greek language.
fe. ellipt. Esteem, regard. Obs.—^
1700 Drvden Fables Anc. 4- Mod. Ded., I am not vain
enough to boast that I have deserv'd the value of so
Illustrious a Line.
7. a. Math, The precise number or amount
represented by a figure, quantity, etc.
iS4a Recorde Or, Artes (1575) 43 Euery Figure hathe
two values ; One . . which it hath of his Forme, and y° other
. .whiche he taketh of his Place, a 1680 Butler Remaitis
(1759) IL 80 A huffing Courtier is a Cypher, that has no
Value himself, but from the Place he stands in. 17x5 tr.
Gregorys Astron. (1726) 1. 477 The Resolution whereof will
give the Value of the Root. 1737 Genii. Mag. VII. 134/2
That he can get a Value of z/ to substitute in the first Equation,
to bring out the Value of z tiue. 1833 H. J. Brooke
Inlrod. Crystallogr, 255 As the value of p increases, the
planes b incline more and more on the primary planes. 1867
J, Hogg Microsc. i. i. 2 The values of these angles. .prove
that the glass of the ancients differed very little from that
manufactured in our ownJimes. 1881 Nature No. 618. 417
So boron in the crystalline salt.. has a higher atomic value
than in its fluoride.
b. AIus. The relative length or duration of a
tone signified by a note.
x66a Playford Skill Mus. \, vii. (1674) 25 The Semibreve
..is called the Master-Note. All the other Notes.. are
measured or Proportioned to its value. 1738 Chambers
Cycl. s.v. Measure^ The Measure is regulated according to
the different Quality or Value of the Notes in the Piece.
1840 Pentipf Cycl. XVI. 333/2 The valuej or length in time,
of the Semibreve may be considered as unity.^ 1869 Ouseley
Counterp, xix. 157 It is not allowed, in making the answer,
to change the value of the notes of the subject.
0. Of cards, chessmen, or the like: Relative rank
or importance according to the conventions of the
game ; the amount at which each (or each set) is
reckoned in counting the score.
1670 Cotton Gamester (1680) 76 The value of the_ Cards
[in CribbageJ is thus : Any fifteen upon the Cards is two.
Ibid. 87 The rest of the Cards are best according to their
value in pips. 174J Hovle IVhist 27 Suppose you have.,
four other Cards of no Value. 1850 Bohn^s Hand-Bk. Games
(1S67) 152 If in cutting there be two lowest cards of a like
value, the holders cut again for the deal. 1874 H. Gibbs
Ombre ( 1 878) 5 * French R uff,' * Five-cards ' and other games
in which the cards have the same value or nearly the same
value as in Ombre.
d. Painting, Due or proper effect or importance
; relative tone of colour in each distinct
section of a picture ; a patch characterized by a
particular tone.
1778 Sir J. Revnolds Disc. viii. (1876) 453 A certain
quantity of cold colours is necessary to give value and lustre
to the warm colours. xS^a Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve
IL 312 Working [at a pamting] now in the forest, now at
home, the lights and values had suffered. 1896 Daily News
10 Feb. 3/4 The new French stamp.. is printed in two impressions
full and mezzo-tint, white spaces furnishing a third
value.
attrib. i^oz Academy 12 Apr. 392/t Replace it in the
picture, it is still a vase, but quite without value relation to
the other parts of the picture.
Value (v3e*li«), V, Forms: 5-6 valow, 6-7
valewe, 7 vallew; 7 Sc. walow, wallow; 6-7
vallue, 6- value,
valutare,'\
[f. the sb. Cf, Sp. valuar^ It.
1, 1. trans. To estimate or appraise as being
worth a specified sum or amotmt.
or with inf.
Const, a/, 'f to,
i4Ba Caxton Trtvisas Higden viii. i, They hadde as
moche good and Jewellys, as was valewyd to fyve bonderde
thousand motons of Gotde. X535 Coverdale Lev. xxvii. 16
It shalbe valued at fiflye Sycles of syluer. 1548 Elyot s.v.
AestimOfHc valewed it at iii. pence. x6a7 ReP. ParisJtesScotl.
(Bann. CI.) 2 We wallow it to be worth sex boHis off wictuall.
Ibid. 3 Quilkis we walow at sex bollis. 163a Lithgow Trav.
VIII- 355 Their Rings. .were valued to a hundred Chickens
of Malta. 1686 tr. Chardtn's Trav. Persia 339, I valued it
at Ten Pounds. 1731^ R. Seymour Compl. Gamester i. 27
(In the game of Codillel a Fish is generally valued at Ten
Counters, 1760-71 H. Brooke Foot 0/ Qual. (1809) I. 151
The appraisers . . valued the same to four pounds. 1835
Tomlius' Law Diet. (ed. 4) s.v. Insurance, After stating that
the goods should be valued at so much.
t b. To equate in value -witA something. Obs,
1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxviii. i6 Wisdome. .shal not be
valued with the wedge of golde of Ophir, nor with the
precious onix. Ibid. 19.
2. To estimate the value of (goods, property,
etc.) ; to appraise in respect of value,
1509-10 -4c/ I //«•«. y///, c. 20 § I Merchaundisez..to be
valued after that ihey coste at the firate byeng or achate.
15J3 FiTZHERB. BA, Survey, j b, To value what the grasse of
tlie gardens.. be worth by the ycrc. 1535 Coverdale Lev,
xxvii. 12 Y" prcst shal value it, whether it be good or bad,
& it shal stonde at the prestes valuynge. 16^ J. Davies
tr, Olearins'' Voy. Ambass, 19 The Presents had not yet
been valu'd, among which was the Cabinet.., which could
not be valu'd but by them. 1755 Magens Insurances I. 197
For Labour and Wood, .which has not been valued, but put
at least at 25 Rixdollars. X780 Burke CEcon. Reform. Wks.
III. 272, I propose to have those rights of the crown valued
as manerial rights are valued on an mclosure. 187a Morley
Voltaire{\%W) 206 Voltaire got bis bill back, and the jewels
were to be duly valued.
edssol. X667 Milton P. L. viii, 571 Weigh with her thy
self; Then value.
t b. To rate for purposes of taxation. Obs.—^
iSf^ TxiADAL& Luke ii. 1 All the woorlde shulde be valued.
o. With immaterial object. \ Also absol, with of,
1593 Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XL 228 The
country swaines cannot value of my worth. 1643 Heming
& CoNDELL Ded. Shaks. Folio^ When we valew the places
your H. H. sustaine, we cannot but know their dignity
greater, then to descend to the reading of these trifles. 1670
Halk Contempt. 1. 513 The Lord, who can best try, And
value what is best, did pass it by.
3. To estimate or regard as having a certain value
or worth : t a. With various constructions. Obs,
1589 Warner Alb. Eng. vr. xxix. 129 And all their Styles
together Are lesser valewed than to Hue beloued of my
Tuder. 1599 Shaks. ^/Kc/i^(/f» in. i. 53 And her wit Values
it selfe so highly, that to her All matter else seemes weake.
? 1634 Earl Stirling Anacrisis P 2, I value Language as a
Conduit. . : I compare a Poem to a Garden. _ 1661 Glanvill
Van. Dogm. xxiv. Apol. Philos. 247 The Swine may see the
Pearl, which yet he values but with the ordinary muck.
az66^ Jer. Taylor Serm.{,\tT^ 124 He must by it regulate
his life, and value it above secular regards. 1736 Leoni
AlbertVs Archit. I. 26/1 In India the Cypress is valu'd
almost equal with the Spice Trees.
+ b. With complementary predicate. Obs.
'593 Shaks, 3 Hen. VI, v, iii. 14 The Queene is valued
thiriie thousand strong. 1619 in Eng. ^ Germ. (Camden)
107 His Master is here valued to be but a silly Jesuited
soule. 1638 R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 138 He
valewes himself to be worthy of an informer, and of commissioners.
X737 Franklin Ess, Wks. 1840 II. 286 Caligula
valued himself a notable dancer.
C, Const. (2^ or f ^(a specified amount). Also
without prep. Usually in negative clauses.
X614 Raleigh Hist. World iv. i. § i To value at little the
power of the Macedonians. 1667 Dryden Sir Martin
Mar-all \. i, I will not value any man's fortune at a rush,
except he have wit. 1751 Lavington Enikus. Meth, ^^
Papists itr. (1754) 42 They don't value Ignatius of a Hair.
"754 Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 218 If I am angry, you
can't help it (as much as to say you value it not a farthing).
1848 J. Grant Aide-de-C. xxiv, He would not value bis
ducats.. a rush. 1891 R. N. Bain tr. Jdkai's Pretty Michal
iv. (1897) 50 He cares not a fig for muskets, and does not
value bis life at a boot-lace.
II. 4. To consider of worth or importance ; to
rate high; to esteem ; to set store by.
1549 J- Cheke in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 8 Your sight is
ful of gai things abrode, which I desire not, as things suffi*
cientli known and valewd. x5oa Greene Upst. Courtier
Wks. (Grosart) XL 227,'Though I am disdained of a few
ouerweeningfooles, I am valued as well as thy selfe with the
wise. x6oo Shaks. A. Y. L. 1. iii. 73, 1 was too yon^ that
time to value her, But now I know her. 1656 in Vemey
Mem. (1907) 1 1. 50, I hope., that you will pries that which
is most to be valewd, which is virtue. 1703 De Foe in xstk
Rep. Hist, MSS.Comm. App. IV. 62,! value theesteem of one
wise man above abundance of blessings. 1771 Junius* Lett.
liv. (1778) 293 Perhaps the example might have taught him
not to value bis own understanding so highly. x8a8 Scott
F. M, Perth xii. Stir not your tongue, . .as you value having
an entire tooth in your bead. x8^ Lincard Anglo-Sax,
Ch. (1858) II. 195 Instead of despising, he will approve and
value their exertions. x88o L. SrEfHEN Pope iv. 94 He
valued money, as a man values it who has been poor.
t b. To commend or praise {po another) ; to
vaunt. Obs,
1670 R. Montagu in Buccleuck MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.)
I. 473 That your Lordship may value it to their Ministers
in England, if ^ou find them complaining. X67S I6id. 513,
I have not omitted to value to them the business of the
Banquiers. a 1700 Evelyn Diar^ 23 Apr. 1646, In this
room stands the glorious inscription of Cavaliero Galeazzo
Arconati, valueing his gift to the librarie of severail drawings
by Da Vinci.
f6. With negatives : To take account of ; to heed
or regard ; to be concerned about ; to care. Obs.
Freq. c 1630-1730 with various constructions.
XS9X Greene Maidens Dr. xix. But like to Scauola, for
countries good. He did not value for to spend his blood.
1634 Sir T. Herbert Travels 10 The foolish quality of
which Bird [the booby] b to sit still, not valuing danger.
166 X in Extr. St, Papers Friends S^r. ir, (1911) 125 My
opinion is thay will not vallew their Oath. 1722 De Foe
Plague (1754) 84 People infected.. valued not who they
injur'd, 17*6 Shelvocke Voy. round IVorld itjsy) 423 You
are in a condition of not valuing whether the coasts are
alarm'd or not. 1765 Earl Haddington Forest Trees 19
They do not value what soil they are set in.
6. re^, a. To pride or plume (oneself) on or t4pon
Also to a person,
a thing, "t*
1667 Pepvs Diary 27 Alay, He.. values himself upon
having of things do well under his hand. 1699 Bentley
Phal. 332 Mr. B. was not ashamed to write it, nay to value
himself upon *t. ax7i5 Burnet 0%vn Time (1766) I. 20
Pierpont valued himself to me upon this service he did his
country. 1748 Anson's Voy, iii.x. ^13 The calm and
patient turn of the Chinese, on which^ tney so much value
themselves. 1838 Lytton Alice 11. ii, A sensible and fre«
quent . . speaker, . . valuing himself on not being a party man.
1855 Motley Dutch Rep. 11. v. (1866) 224 Moreover.., the
learned Doctor valued himself upon his logic
b. To think highly of (oneself)^*?/' something.
1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 75 What
sort of an animal was the dragon, which thou valuest thyself
so much for slaying ? 17*5 Portland Papers (Hist. MSS.
Comm.) VI. n8 They value themselves nere for making
very fine kid gloves for ladies. 1743 J, Morris Serm. ii.53
Those extraordinary gifts, for which the Corinthians so
highly valued themselves. 1837 J* H* Newman Par. Serm,
I. xvii. 251 Everyone is in danger of valuing himself for
what he does.*
+ 7. To give greater value to ; to raise the estimation
of, Obs, rare.
X614 Raleigh Hist. fVorldv, iii. § z; 431 Hanno. .and his
Partisans, being neither able to taxe the vertue of their
enemies, .. nor to pcrforme the like sexuices vnto tha
Common