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Word Meanings - UNUSAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.

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  • USAGE
    1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage. My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty. Shak.
  • USAGER
    One who has the use of anything in trust for another. Daniel.
  • HOUSAGE
    A fee for keeping goods in a house. Chambers.
  • DISUSAGE
    Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse. Hooker.
  • SPOUSAGE
    Espousal. Bale.
  • ESPOUSAGE
    Espousal. Latimer.
  • MISUSAGE
    Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.
  • SAUSAGE
    1. An article of food consisting of meat minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.
  • UNUSAGE
    Want or lack of usage. Chaucer.
  • SUPERPLUSAGE
    Surplusage. "There yet remained a superplusage." Bp. Fell.
  • ABUSAGE
    Abuse. Whately .
  • SURPLUSAGE
    Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected. (more info) 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. Take what thou please of all this surplusage. Spenser.

 

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