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verb (English)
1. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury.Examples: "I turn no moneys in the public bank; Nor usure private."; "Neither do we approve the policy of the other sections of the bill referred to us, which proposes to declare utterly void all interests by which any usurious or illegal rate of interest is usured or taken, and under which a party may, as has been elsewhere done, tempt a neighbor by an offer of a high rate of interest to loan him money, and then under the cover of this law, turn around and cheat him out of the whole of it."; "Similarly, he must make restitution to those from whom he has stolen or robbed before those he has usured."intransitiveobsolete
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The process by which a metaphor inexorably loses its freshness, power, and imagery through overuse.Examples: "This movement involves a detour through metaphor: with the expropriation of the primitive meaning given to things, we fall into a metaphoric mode of understanding; in the course of human history and through the process of usure or wearing away of the figurative, and 'proper' meaning is restored; this new one is the old one effaced and carried to a higher conceptual power, now interiorized and spiritualized."; "In effect there is no access to the usure of a linguistic phenomenon without giving it some figurative representation."; "In the exergue of "White Mythology" Derrida tracks the metaphor of the usure from the perspective and tradition of the philosophical metaphor, which is seen to admit the usure as its own process and essence."uncountable
2. (countable) An instance of degredation due to use; A sign of wear and tear.Examples: "If the cartilage is thick, there are fewer usures and less destruction of the bone."; "Usures develop there which frequently have sclerotic outlines. Usures are also found on the upper surface of the talus, sometimes there are corresponding changes on the articular surface of the tibia."; "The intercostal arteries expand and lead to rib usures."countable
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