Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: U-SU-FRUCT'U-A-RY – U'TIL-IZE
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A person who has the use and enjoyment of property for a time, without having the title or property. Johnson.
US-URE, v.i. [s as z.]
To practice usury. [Not in use.] Shak.
US-U-RER, n. [s as z. See Usury.]
- Formerly, a person who lent money and took interest for it.
- In present usage, one who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law.
U-SU'RI-OUS, a. [s as z.]
- Practicing usury; taking exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.
- Partaking of usury; containing usury; as, a usurious contract, which by statute is void.
U-SU'RI-OUS-LY, adv.
In a usurious manner.
U-SU'RI-OUS-NESS, n.
The state or quality of being usurious.
U-SURP', v.t. [s as z. Fr. usurper; L. usurpo.]
To seize and hold in possession by force or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power. To usurp the right of a patron, to oust or dispossess him. Vice sometimes usurps the place of virtue. Denham. [Usurp is not applied to common dispossession of private property.]
U-SURP-A'TION, n. [supra.]
The act of seizing or occupying and enjoying the property of another, without right; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power. Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, denotes the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who is thereupon admitted and instituted. Cyc.
U-SURP'A-TO-RY, a.
Usurping; marked by usurpation.
U-SURP'ED, pp.
Seized or occupied and enjoyed by violence, or without right.
U-SURP'ER, n.
One who seizes or occupies the property of another without right; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron. Shak. Dryden. Cyc.
U-SURP'ING, ppr.
Seizing or occupying the power or property of another without right. The worst of tyrants, an usurping crowd. Pope.
U-SURP'ING-LY, adv.
By usurpation; without just right or claim. Shak.
US-U-RY, n. [s as z. Fr. usure; L. usura, from utor, to use.]
- Formerly, interest; or a premium paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money. [Usury formerly denoted any legal interest, but in this sense, the word is no longer in use.]
- In present usage, illegal interest; a premium or compensation paid or stipulated to be paid for the use of money borrowed or retained, beyond the rate of interest established by law.
- The practice of taking interest. [Obs.] Bacon.
U-TEN'SIL, n. [Fr. utensile. This seems to be formed on the participle of the L. utor.]
An instrument; that which is used; particularly, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.
U'TER-INE, a. [Fr. uterin; L. uterinus, from uterus.]
Pertaining to the womb. Uterine brother or sister, is one born of the same mother, but by a different father. Cyc.
Gestation in the womb from conception to birth. Pritchard.
U'TER-US, n. [L.]
The womb.
UTILE-DULCI, n. [Utile dulci; L.]
The useful with the agreeable.
U-TIL-I-TA'RI-AN, a.
Consisting in or pertaining to utility.
U-TIL-I-TA'RI-AN, n.
One who considers utility the end or purpose of moral virtue.
The doctrine that utility is the end of morality.
U-TIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. utilité; L. utilitas, from utor, to use.]
Usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manures upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
U-TIL-I-ZA'TION, n.
A making profitable; a gaining.
U'TIL-IZE, v.t. [It. utilizzare; Sp. utilizar; from utile, util, useful.]
- To gain profit; to acquire. Journ. of Science.
- To turn to profitable account or use.