A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic] Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii. 19. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Matt. xxv. 27. What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of Dryden.
The practice of taking interest. [Obs.] Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few Bacon.
Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
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