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单词 usurer
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usurern.

Brit. /ˈjuːʒ(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈjuʒərər/
Forms: α. Middle English–1600s vsurer, Middle English vsurere, Middle English, Scottish1500s vsurar; Middle English usurere, 1500s– usurer. β. Middle English–1500s vserer, Middle English vserere, 1500s–1600s userer (1500s uss-).
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman usurer, userer, = Old French usureor , < medieval Latin ūsūrārius usurary n. Compare usurier n., and Spanish usurero, Portuguese usurario, Italian usurajo.
One who practises usury or lends money at interest; a moneylender, esp. in later use one who charges an excessive rate of interest.
ΘΚΠ
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
α.
c1290 St. Magdalena 117 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 465 An vsurer was ȝwilene, þat hadde dettores tweyne.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2611 Whan any vsurere was dede, Þe chercheȝerde þey hym forbede.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 275 If prestes weren parfyt þei wolde..nouȝte [take] her mete of vsureres.
c1410 Lantern of Light 132 In þis chirche ben vsureris, okureris, iourours.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 53 Other..ben bawdes and theues, usureres, bariters.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Gij No Christian is an vsurer.
1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers B iij The Broker in this matter, getteth..thousand thankes of this diuellish Vsurer.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London vi. sig. F2 These are Vsurers: who for a little money..bring yong Nouices into a fooles Paradice till they haue sealed the Morgage of their landes.
1677 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 395 Mr. Deane, the old usurer.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 20 As all-rapacious Usurers conceal Their Doomsday book, from all-consuming Heirs.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 70 The usurer, who derived from the interest of money a silent and ignominious profit.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby i. 3 This promising lad commenced usurer on a limited scale at school.
1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. xliv. 129 I know myself to be an usurer as long as I take interest on any money.
β. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2453 Cauuarsyns and vserers, Þys are, Lucyfer, þy peres.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 206/2 Gowlare, or vserere, usurarius.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxiii. 434 The riche vserer that deliteth in his richesse.1581 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1906) ii. 221 Edwardes..is an extreme usserer.1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 34 He beareth..to vserer Haruies good chear & money bags.1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 198 This man is a greate userer; and the King of Firando oweth hym much money.1699 in E. W. Dunbar Soc. Life Moray (1865) 31 Under the certificating of being pursued as Occurrers or Userers.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as usurer class, usurer-like.
ΚΠ
1729 A. Boyer Royal Dict. 1 Usurairement, usurer-like.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Apr. 7/1 The usurer-ridden peasantry and overworked operatives.
1902 Fabian News May 20/1 The landlord and usurer classes of India.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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