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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
usage
n 1: the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic
drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn:
use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment,
exercise]
2: accepted or habitual practice [syn: custom, usage,
usance]
3: the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a
language) is spoken or written; "English usage"; "a usage
borrowed from French"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Usage \Us"age\, n. [F. usage, LL. usaticum. See Use.]
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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.
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My brother
Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
He hath good usage and great liberty. --Shak.
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2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs.]
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A gentle nymph was found,
Hight Astery, excelling all the crew
In courteous usage. --Spenser.
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3. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure;
custom; habitual use; method. --Chaucer.
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It has now been, during many years, the grave and
decorous
usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence,
all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which
are uttered from the throne. --Macaulay.
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4. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a
particular sense or signification.
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5. Experience. [Obs.]
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In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage.
--Chaucer.
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Syn: Custom; use; habit.
Usage: Usage, Custom. These words, as here compared,
agree in expressing the idea of habitual practice; but
a custom is not necessarily a usage. A custom may
belong to many, or to a single individual. A usage
properly belongs to the great body of a people. Hence,
we speak of usage, not of custom, as the law of
language. Again, a custom is merely that which has
been often repeated, so as to have become, in a good
degree, established. A usage must be both often
repeated and of long standing. Hence, we speak of a
"hew custom," but not of a "new usage." Thus, also,
the "customs of society" is not so strong an
expression as the "usages of society." "Custom, a
greater power than nature, seldom fails to make them
worship." --Locke. "Of things once received and
confirmed by use, long usage is a law sufficient."
--Hooker. In law, the words usage and custom are often
used interchangeably, but the word custom also has a
technical and restricted sense. See Custom, n., 3.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
USAGE. Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning this term
includes custom and prescription, though it differs from them in a narrower
sense, it is applied to the habits, modes, and course of dealing which are
observed in trade generally, as to all mercantile transactions, or to some
particular branches of trade.
2. Usage of trade does not require to be immemorial to establish it; if
it be known, certain, uniform, reasonable, and not contrary to law, it is
sufficient. But evidence of a few instances that such a thing has been done
does not establish a usage. 3 Watts, 178; 3 Wash. C. C. R. 150; 1 Gallis.
443; 5 Binn. 287; 9 Pick. 426; 4 B. & Ald. 210; 7 Pet. 1; 2 Wash. C. C. R.
7.
3. The usages of trade afford ground upon which a proper construction
may be given to contracts. By their aid the indeterminate intention of
parties and the nature and extent of their contracts arising from mere
implications or presumptions, and act of an equivocal character may be
ascertained; and the meaning of words and doubtful expressions may become
known. 2 Mete. 65; 2 Sumn. 569; 2 G. & J. 136; 13 Pick. 182; Story on Ag.
Sec. 77; 2 Kent, Com. 662, 3d ed.; 5 Wheat. 326; 2 Car. & P. 525; 3 B. &
Ald. 728; Park. on Ins. 30; 1 Marsh. Ins. 186, n. 20; 1 Caines, 45 Gilp.
356, 486; 1 Edw. Ch. R. 146; 1 N. & M. 519; 15 Mass. 433; 1 Rill, R. 270;
Wright, R. 573; Pet. C. C. R. 230; 5 Hamm. 436 6 Pet. 715; 2 Pet. 148; 6
Porter, 123 1 Hall, 612; 9 Mass. 155; 9 Wheat. 582 11 Wheat. 430; 1 Pet. 25,
89.
4. Courts will not readily adopt these usages, because they are not
unfrequently founded in mistake. 2 Sumn. 377. See 3 Chitt. Pr. 55; Story,
Confl. of Laws, Sec. 270; 1 Dall. 178; Vaugh. 169, 383; Bouv. Inst. Index,
h.t.
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4. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and
Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent
reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to
produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
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Thesaurus Results for usage:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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