usure
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usure (third-person singular simple present usures, present participle usuring, simple past and past participle usured)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “usure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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usure f (usually uncountable, plural usures)
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usure f (uncountable)
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Further reading edit
- “usure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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usure f
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ūsūre
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Etymology edit
From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra.
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usure (plural usures)
- To lend money in order to make interest; usury.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prioresses Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- foul vsure and lucre of vileynye Hateful to Crist.
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- Interest on a loan.
- A loan.
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- “ūsūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.