chievance

English

Etymology

From Old French chevance (“property”), equivalent to chevisance, from chevir (“to accomplish”). See chevisance.

Noun

chievance (plural chievances)

(obsolete) An unlawful bargain; trade in which money is extorted as discount.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
  There were good laws against usury, the bastard use of money; and against unlawful chievances and exchanges, which is bastard usury.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chievance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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