Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To practise usury.
  • noun Interest; usury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest.
  • noun obsolete Usury.

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  • noun Obsolete form of usury.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Economy in order to articulate what I am going to say with the other possible tropical system of usure, in the sense of usury, thus of interest, surplus value, fiduciary calculation, or interest rate, which Ricoeur indicates but leaves in the shadows, although it forms a heterogeneous and discontinuous supplement. a tropical divergence irreducible to that of being-worn-out or worn down.

    Archive 2009-05-01 enowning 2009

  • Economy in order to articulate what I am going to say with the other possible tropical system of usure, in the sense of usury, thus of interest, surplus value, fiduciary calculation, or interest rate, which Ricoeur indicates but leaves in the shadows, although it forms a heterogeneous and discontinuous supplement. a tropical divergence irreducible to that of being-worn-out or worn down.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • (Skweyiya) had sent a letter to foreign embassies apparently saying he had no confidence in the current (white) civil service and was usure it would co-operate in implementing the Recontruction and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • It cannot be accepted simply as other facts of life are accepted; it cannot even be talked about, and so submitted to the slow usure by which our experiences are worn down and gradually transformed.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

  • L'histoire de la philosophie est contrainte d'emprunter d'abord à la philosophie la lumière qu'elle doit lui rendre un jour avec usure. —

    A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • L'histoire de la philosophie est contrainte d'emprunter d'abord a la philosophie la lumiere qu'elle doit lui rendre un jour avec usure.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • I'm a bit usure of what SqlServer applications I have installed (as they are intertwingled with the Aps. Net stuff somewhat).

    ASP.NET Forums 2010

  • I'm a bit usure of what SqlServer applications I have installed (as they are intertwingled with the Aps. Net stuff somewhat).

    ASP.NET Forums 2010

  • I'm a bit usure of what SqlServer applications I have installed (as they are intertwingled with the Aps. Net stuff somewhat).

    ASP.NET Forums 2010

  • I'm a bit usure of what SqlServer applications I have installed (as they are intertwingled with the Aps. Net stuff somewhat).

    ASP.NET Forums 2010

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