Definition of Inurement

1. n. Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

Definition of Inurement

1. Noun. Custom, habituation; normal practice. ¹

2. Noun. Benefit; for example, the 501c3 prohibition against "private inurement" within non-profit entities means that individuals within that organization may not receive excessive compensation or benefit from their employment or association, because such arrangements would contravene the supposed mission of the organization. ¹

3. Noun. (legal) In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inurement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inurement

inundated
inundates
inundating
inundation
inundation fever
inundations
inundator
inundators
inundatory
inunderstanding
inurbane
inurbanities
inurbanity
inure
inured
inurement (current term)
inurements
inures
inuring
inurn
inurned
inurning
inurnment
inurnments
inurns
inusitate
inusitation
inust
inustion
inustions

Literary usage of Inurement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"133, 17 Atl. 238, 3 LRA 219, 11 Am. St. Rep. 880. inurement. Use; user; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson r. Colgrove, 100 US 583, ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"Again, lack of inurement at first keeps the record down. As this lack diminishes the practice gain will be great, and later it will be less, due to a change ..."

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