OriginBorrowed from French usure.
- intransitive, obsoleteTo commit usury.
“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 t”
“Similarly, he must make restitution to those from whom he has stolen or robbed before those he has usured.”
- To cause to degenerate through usage.
“The maternal tongue is irrevocably supplanted by a usured tongue, the language of the truck driver and of the maid in Andalusia.”
“Now, however, preaching cannot help anymore. They have usured themselves deaf, blind, and senseless, and they hear, see, and feel nothing more.”
“This dialectic of "blindness and insight" (and if this insight of Paul de Man has been used up, usured too many times to have kept its luster, what other relation to blindness is concealed in the plac”
- uncountableThe process by which a metaphor inexorably loses its freshness, power, and imagery through overuse.
“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 t”
“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 e”
- countableAn instance of degredation due to use; A sign of wear and tear.
“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.”
Formsusures(present, singular, third-person) · usuring(participle, present) · usured(participle, past) · usured(past) · usures(plural)