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单词 caorsin
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Caorsinn.

Forms: Also Middle English kauersin.
Etymology: < Old French caorsin, caoursin, coursin, etc., in medieval Latin caorcini, cadurcini, caturcini, in Matt. Paris caursini, an inhabitant of Cahors, Latin Cadurcum, in Languedoc, a famous seat of Italian money-changers and financiers in the Middle Ages; hence, banker, usurer, moneylender. Commonly mentioned along with Lombards and Jews. See Godefroy and Du Cange.
Obsolete (exc. historical).
A banker or money-dealer from Cahors: usurer.The Caorsins were expelled from England by Henry III in 1240, readmitted on the intervention of the Pope in 1250, and again proscribed and imprisoned ‘on account of their unbounded and detestable usury’ in 1251.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
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a1259 M. Paris Chron. Majora anno 1235 (Rolls Ser.) III. 328 Caursinorum pestis abominanda.
a1259 M. Paris Chron. Majora anno 1255 (Rolls Ser.) V. 519 Qui [Judæi] si forte ab aliquibus Christianis plangerentur, ab æmulis eorum Cahursinis siccis lacrimis deplorabantur.]
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 5555 Okerers, ande kauersyns, As wykkede þey are as sarasyns.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 35 Þe heȝe men..þet hyealdeþ and sosteneþ Iewes and þe Caorsins, þet leneþ and destruiþ þe contraye.
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