Definition of Usurer. Meaning of Usurer. Synonyms of Usurer

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Definition of Usurer

Usurer
Usurer U"su*rer, n. [F. usurier, LL. usurarius. See Usury, and cf. Usurarious.] 1. One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. [Obs.] If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. --Ex. xxii. 25. 2. One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money. He was wont to call me usurer. --Shak.

Meaning of Usurer from wikipedia

- defined by the laws of a state. Someone who practices usury can be called a usurer, but in modern colloquial English may be called a loan shark. In many historical...
- in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and La febre d'or (Gold Fever) which is set in Barcelona during the period...
- in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under the title l'Usurier (The Usurer), and then in August 1830 in the periodical Le Voleur. The actual novella...
- Golding, to a member of the guild. Quicksilver meets with Security, an old usurer and pander who is married to a young woman named Winifred. Quicksilver devises...
- occurred in the lives of the Jews. The Church forbade Christians to be usurers, so the Jews secured the remunerative monopoly of money-lending. This decree...
- Death and the Miser (also known as Death of the Usurer) is a Northern Renaissance painting produced between 1490 and 1516 by the Dutch artist Hieronymus...
- Baluchistan and Khorasan in Iran. Uyghur merchants would har**** Hindu usurers by screaming at them asking them if they ate beef or hanging cow skins...
- were not liable to the ecclesiastical punishments which were placed upon usurers by the popes. Christian rulers gradually saw the advantage of having a...
- which have nothing behind them but the forty or fifty thousand Jewish usurers and pick-pockets in each country and which no decent Christian ever reads...
- they once devoured the inheritances committed to their trust. Lower down usurers stagger about, weighed down by the reptiles in their bellies. Further,...