† chevisancern.
Obsolete. rare.
A moneylender.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
ten tribes971
gavellerc1200
usurerc1290
Caorsin1303
collybistc1380
ockererc1390
fenerator1447
usuraryc1450
usurier1480
user1566
fulker1568
money-monger1571
moneylender1598
twenty in the hundred1602
Jew's trump1605
putter-outa1616
money-bawd1631
chevisancer1633
use-man1633
Lombardeer1645
money-banker1677
bummaree1738
mahajan1852
sixty per cent1853
gombeen-man1862
1633 A. Munday et al. Stow's Surv. of London (new ed.) 677/1 Also, if any Vsurers or false chevesancers be dwelling within this Ward.
1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 392 If any false Chevesauncers, or extortioning, Usururs dwell within their Ward.
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