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usager|ˈjuːzɪdʒə(r)|
[f. usage n. In sense 1 perh. a. F. usager.]
†1. One who has the usufruct of something. Obs.—1
1596Daniel Civ. Wars iii. lxxxviii, He consum'd the common Treasurie: Whereof he being the simple vsager..Did alien at his pleasure.
2. Ch. Hist. A member of that section of non-jurors which observed ‘the usages’ in celebrating Holy Communion. See usage n. 2 b.
1788J. Skinner Eccl. Hist. II. 623 Bishop Jeremy Collier, the laborious Church-historian,..appeared keenly at the head of the Usagers, as we shall now call them. 1845Lathbury Nonjurors 291 Mr. Peck went to Scotland in 1718, on behalf of..the Usagers, as they were designated. 1877A. J. Ross Mem. A. Ewing xiii. 179 ‘Usagers’ was the designation of a certain party in the Scottish Episcopal Church. |