A Couple of Thoughts For Monday

 

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    I ran out of time Sunday, but I wanted to take a minute to think about the word "praise."

    It seems to me that to praise someone or something is to speak of their value and attributes.

    I had been thinking about what it means to praise God.  How do we do that?  I am not churched, so I don't know the official teachings on any of this. 

    What I finally came up with is to verbally acknowledge the attributes, the character, acts, and nature of God. 

    I see it as an answer. We would be answering his loving invitation. Praise would become a person's side in a relationship.

    What do you think?  Does that seem accurate?

    praise (v.)

c. 1300, preisen, "to express admiration of, commend, adulate, flatter" (someone or something), from Old French preisier, variant of prisier "to praise, value," from Late Latin preciare, earlier pretiare "to price, value, prize," from Latin pretium "reward, prize, value, worth," from PIE *pret-yo-, suffixed form of *pret-, extended form of root *per- (5) "to traffic in, to sell."

Specifically with God as an object from late 14c. Related: Praised; praising. It replaced Old English lof, hreþ.

The earliest sense in English was the classical one, "to assess, set a price or value on" (mid-13c.); also "to prize, hold in high esteem" (late 13c.). Now a verb in most Germanic languages (German preis, Danish pris, etc.), but only in English is it differentiated in form from its doublets price (q.v.) and prize, which represent variants of the French word with the vowel leveled but are closer in sense to the Latin originals.