Usury

Usury
Usury U"su*ry, n. [OE. usurie, usure, F. usure, L. usura use, usury, interest, fr. uti, p. p. usus, to use. See {Use}, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. --Deut. xxiii. 19. [1913 Webster]

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. --Matt. xxv. 27. [1913 Webster]

What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of ??is own. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2. The practice of taking interest. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few ??nds. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

3. (Law) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. [1913 Webster]

Note: The practice of requiring in repayment of money lent anything more than the amount lent, was formerly thought to be a great moral wrong, and the greater, the more was taken. Now it is not deemed more wrong to take pay for the use of money than for the use of a house, or a horse, or any other property. But the lingering influence of the former opinion, together with the fact that the nature of money makes it easier for the lender to oppress the borrower, has caused nearly all Christian nations to fix by law the rate of compensation for the use of money. Of late years, however, the opinion that money should be borrowed and repaid, or bought and sold, upon whatever terms the parties should agree to, like any other property, has gained ground everywhere. --Am. Cyc. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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