usurary

English edit

Alternative forms edit

usurarious

Etymology edit

Latin usurarius (“that serves for use, that pays interest”). See English usurer, French usuraire.

Adjective edit

usurary (comparative more usurary, superlative most usurary)

(obsolete) Usurious.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “usurary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)