Appreciate

If any word in the language has cause to complain of ill-treatment, this one has. Appreciate means, to estimate justly —to set the true value on men or things, their worth, beauty, or advantages of any sort whatsoever. Thus, an overestimate is no more appreciation than is an underestimate; hence it follows that such expre ions as, "I appreciate it, or her, or him, highly ," can not be correct. We value , or prize , things highly, not appreciate them highly. This word is also very improperly made to do service for rise , or increase , in value; thus, "Land appreciates rapidly in the West." Dr. L. T. Town send blunders in the use of appreciate in his "Art of Speech," vol. i, p. 142, thus: "The laws of harmony... may allow copiousne ... in parts of a discourse... in order that the condensation of other parts may be the more highly appreciated ."