usurpresst (uzerpres)

[ Thou ought est therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then, at my coming, I should have received mine own with usury . Mat. xxv. 27. 2. An exce ive or inordinate premium paid, or stipulated to be paid, for the use of money borrowed; any such premium pre in exce of the rate established or permitted by law, which varies locally. I send you her with the pylyon for the male, and Xs. for the hyer, whyche is usery , I tak God to rekord. Paston Letters, III. 110. 6677 utensil (u-ten's il, formerly also ü'ten-sil), n. [Early mod. E. utensile; MĚ. utensyl; The Crucifixes and other Utensils were dispos'd in order for beginning the proce ion. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 72. I earnestly intreat you to get the utensils for observing the Quantities of Rain which fall at York, which will be an experiment exceedingly acceptable to every curious person. W. Derham , in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 316. 3. The practice of lending money at interest, or of taking interest for money lent; specifically, Syn. Implement , Instrument , etc. See tool. and now almost exclusively, the practice of uteri, n. Plural of uterus . taking exorbitant or exce ive interest; the uterine (u'te-rin), a. [= F. utérin = Sp. Pg. taking of extortionate interest from the needy or extravagant. Their [the Jews'] only studies are Divinity and Physick: Sandys, Travailes (1652), p. 115. their occupations, brokage and usury. The root of the condemnation of usury was simply an error in political economy. Lecky , European Morals, I. 94. us us (ū'sus), n. [L.] Use; specifically, in Rom. law , the right to enjoy the use, fruits, and products of a thing personally, without transferring them to others. It usually implied actual po e ion - that is, the right to detain the thing; but the legal po e ion was in the owner who held subject to us us. More specifically, us us was the lower form of civil marriage, in which the wife was regarded as coming into the po e ion or under the hand of the husband, as if a daughter.-Usus loquendi, usage in speaking; the established usage of a certain language or cla of speakers. U. S. V. An abbreviation of United States Vol unteers. IMG:content-1652.png:[blocks in formation] species, as U. elegans, U. stansburiana, U. ornata, etc., inhabiting western regions of the United States, as from Utah southward.