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usurer3 (s.xii1)

usurer3 (s.xii1)

userer  
  FEW:  usura 14,83b Gdf:  usurer 8,124c GdfC: TL: usurer 11,67 DEAF:  usure (usurer)  DMF:  usurer  TLF:  usure 1 (usurer)  OED:  usure v.  MED:  usuren v.  DMLBS:  usurare 3569c

v.intrans.

1finan.to lend money at interest
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Tu vendis tuen pueple senz pris, e nient ne useras (var. (B: s.xii4/4) e ne usuras) en chanjemenz d'els (Latin: Vendidisti populum tuum sine pretio, et non fenerasti in commutatione eorum)  Camb Ps 76.XLIII.12
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 ) Manmone ço est uns paltunniers diables qui la gent fait usurer et or et argent covoitier  Psalter Comment 485.231
fig.to lend money at interest
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  De Deu usuret ki merci Ad del povre que veit mendi (Latin: Feneratur Domino qui miseretur pauperi), E Deus gueredon l'en rendrat Quant merite achaison dorrat  Salemon 11617
2finan.to earn interest
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  A usure met sa maaille; Un sul dener feit usurer, En poi de tens pot amonter Un sul dener maint marc d'argent  GAIMAR1 6067
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  La peine qe usure. Kar pecché est le aver del diable q'i doune a gable e a usure de peine  Ancren1 232.21

sbst. inf.

finan.usury, practice of lending money at interest
( 1313-14 )  cest accioun de dett e foundé sur un pegne et soune de usurer, de qi ley ne suffer pas aver recoverier  YBB Ed II vii 27
( 1363-64; MS: 1419 )  si ascun apreste ou mette en mayns d'ascuny or ou argent, pur gaigne ent recevire, ou promys en certeigne sanz aventure, eit la punissement pur usurers en la dite ordinance compris  Lib Alb 400

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See also:

usure1  usurer1  usurer2  usurere1 
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