usurious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /juːˈʒuːɹɪəs/|/juːˈzjuːɹɪəs/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to usury.
    — If an Executor pay an Uſurious Bond, other Creditors may make a Devaſtavit of it, Hob. p. 167. If a Man be bound in an Obligation Uſurious, the Bond is void between the Parties, yea and Strangers ſhall take the advantage of it; and therefore if ſuch an Obligor makes his Executor and die, and the Executor pay the uſurious Bond, other Creditors may ſhew it, and make a Devaſtavit of it, in Winchcomb and the Biſhop of Wincheſter’s Caſe.
  2. Exorbitant.
    — But nature, violated by these excesses, exacts a most usurious interest for this illicit indulgence. She makes them pay for moments of rapture with hours of despair.

词形变化

more usurious comparative most usurious superlative usurous alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
usuriousness
相关词
usurer usuress

词源

Etymology tree
English usury
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English usurious
From usury + -ous.
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