estimableness

[Eng. estimable; -ne .] The quality or or state of being estimable or worthy of esteem. summer; to summer in a place. ( Cocker am.) ěs-tiv-ā-tion, s. [ESTIVATION.] *ěs-toc', s . [Fr.] A short sword worn at the girdle by mounted soldiers. ês-toile, ê-toil'e (toile as twal), s. [Fr.] Her.: A star with six wavy points; it is thus distinguished from a mullet, which has but five straight points. ês-toil-êe (toil as twal), s. [Fr.] Her.: A star with four long rays in form of a cro , taper A. Transitive : 1. To value; to adjust or determine the value of; to judge of anything by comparison with something else; to fix the worth of. "When a man shall sanctify his house to the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it whether it be good or bad."- Levitic us xxvii. 14. 2. To compute, to reckon; as, He estimated the number present at 300. Crabb thus discriminates between to estimate, to compute , and to rate : "All these terms mark the mental operation by which the sum, amount, or value of things is obtained: to estimate is to obtain the aggregate sum in one's mind, either by an immediate or a progre ive act; to compute is to obtain the sum by the gradual proce of putting together items; to rate is to fix the relative value in one's mind by deduction and comparison; a builder estimates the expense of building a house on a given plan; a proprietor of houses computes the probable diminution in the value of his property in conse quence of wear and tear; the surveyor rates the present value of lands or houses. In the moral acceptation they bear the same analogy to each other: some men areapt to estimate the adventitious privileges of birth or rank too high; it would be a useful occupation for men to compute the lo they sustain by the idle waste of time on the one hand, and its nece arily unprofitable consumption on the other: he who rates his abilities too high is in danger of despising the means which are e ential to secure succe . (Crabb: Eng. Synon .)