Picture something being put on a scale so that someone can say what it is worth. That act — weighing a thing on purpose in order to reach a verdict — is what every use of appraise is doing; only the scale and the answer change. Put money on the other side and the answer is a price. Put standards on the other side and the answer is a judgement: this plan works, this employee has done well, this risk is too high. Shrink the whole act down to a second and let it happen behind someone's eyes, and it becomes the long look a character gives a stranger before deciding anything out loud.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry takes appraise from Middle English apreisen and Old French aprisier, to set a price on, from Late Latin appretiare, built on Latin pretium, price or value — the same root as precious, and a doublet of appreciate.
packet 裡的 Wiktionary 把 appraise 追到中古英文 apreisen、古法文 aprisier（定價），再到晚期拉丁文 appretiare，核心是拉丁文 pretium（價格、價值）——跟 precious 同根，也跟 appreciate 是一對雙生字。所以「秤出值多少」不只是比喻，它就寫在字裡。
Wiktionary entry supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:629350329)
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