Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who lends money at interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawfully high rate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who lent money and took interest for it.
- n. One who lends money at an exorbitant rate of interest; a money-lender who exacts excessive or inordinate interest. See usury.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
- n. Specifically, a male usurer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.
- n. One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin ūsūrārius, moneylender, from Latin, interest-bearing, from ūsūra, usury; see usury.
Examples
“A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a-days -- or brewer, orator, anything that leads up to a figure-head, and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him.”
“A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker -- as we call the usurer now-a”
“That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath – breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.”
“That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of;”
“That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every”
“Usually, the usurer is a fourth party that stands yet behind the third party, taking no risks, demanding complete security for his loan and also an increase out of the products of the operators.”
“That the usurer is the drone that Virgil speaketh of:”
“That the usurer is the drone that Virgil speaketh of; Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent.”
“That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.”
“It was not to deny that the man was an usurer, but to assert that the usurer was a man.”
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