† usuraryn.
Obsolete. rare.
A moneylender.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
ten tribes971
gavellerc1200
usurerc1290
Caorsin1303
collybistc1380
ockererc1390
fenerator1447
usuraryc1450
usurier1480
user1566
fulker1568
money-monger1571
moneylender1598
twenty in the hundred1602
Jew's trump1605
putter-outa1616
money-bawd1631
chevisancer1633
use-man1633
Lombardeer1645
money-banker1677
bummaree1738
mahajan1852
sixty per cent1853
gombeen-man1862
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 526 All þies vsuraries rase and went oute confusid.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 524 Som tyme in Colayn þer was ane vsurarie.
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† usuraryadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Marked by the payment of interest; on which excessive interest is paid.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to or characterized by usury
usurous1605
usurious1610
usurarious1623
usurary1649
feneratorial1793
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. i. 7 How odious..usurary contracts have been in all times.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. i. 13 Every increase by loan of money is not usurarie.
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 147 That the Usurary Bond or Contract shall be reduced.
1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. x. 331 That if it [sc. a lease] were in the Terms of the old Act, Parl. 1449. cap. 19. far within the true Avail, it were usurary and null.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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