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Definition of Misusing
1. misuse [v] - See also: misuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misusing
Literary usage of Misusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"Misappropriating or misusing, or losing any security for the debt held by the
creditor, discharges the surety (q). Where the creditor was unable to recover ..."
2. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"х-лх * ii. wrongfully taking a personal chattel ; 2dly, by some other illegal
assump- OTER- sion of ownership, or by illegal using or misusing goods (1) ..."
3. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"Beating or otherwise misusing the Servant, so that he cannot render to the Master
full service. This injury depends upon the same principle as the last, ..."
4. Christianity and Politics by William Cunningham (1915)
"THE DANGER OF misusing SCRIPTURE The Bible was at once the foundation, the
textbook, and the inspiration of the Presbyterian theocracy, ..."
5. Martin's Practice of Conveyancing: With Forms of Assurances by Charles Davidson (1844)
"RESERVATION (over the usual Rent) of an ADDITIONAL RENT for ploughing PASTURE,
or misusing ARABLE Land. Covenants by the LESSEE (among others) to do ..."
6. History of Newcastle and Gateshead by Howard Pease, Richard Welford (1887)
"famous for thy mocking and misusing of Christ's messengers and ill entertainment
of his servants ever since the Reformation ; witness that famous Knox, ..."
7. The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: And the Lives and by John Fleetwood (1874)
"... RECEPTION OF A PENITENT SINNER, AND THE PUNISHMENT OF misusing THE BENEFITS
OF THE GOSPEL. OUR Saviour was invited by one of the Pharisees to his house. ..."
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