A-Z: General definitions
- Ubi Sunt?
- Ulster
- Ulysses
- Unclean
- Unction
- Underground railroad
- Underworld
- Unequally Yoked
- Unfrock
- Unionist
- Unitarian
- United Nations
- Unities
- Universalism
- Unknown God
- Unleavened bread
- Unpardonable Sin
- Unregenerate
- Unreliable Narrator
- Unrepentant
- Unrighteousness
- Upright
- Uranus
- Uriah
- Urim and Thummin
- Usury
- Utilitarian
- Utilitarianism
- Utopia
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A-Z: General definitions: Usury
Definition
The practice of lending money with unreasonable and excessively high rates of interest. Originally the term applied to the charging of any rates of interest, a practice banned by the Church in the medieval and early modern eras.
1. Term for a worshipping community of Christians.
2. The building in which Christians traditionally meet for worship.
3. The worldwide community of Christian believers.
Belonging to the Middle Ages.
The period from the late Middle Ages until around 1800.
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