feneration

[Fr. fénération, from Lat. feneratio, from feneratus, pa. par. of fenero.] 1. The act or practice of lending money on usury. 2. Usury; interest on money lent. "The hare figured not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, but feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation."-Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. iii., ch. xvii. *fen-er-ā-tious, a. [Lat. feneratus , pa. par. of fenero.] Of or belonging to usury. ( Ash .)