[f. USAGE sb. In sense 1 perh. a. F. usager.]

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  † 1.  One who has the usufruct of something. Obs.–1

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1596.  Daniel, Civ. Wars, III. lxxxviii. He consum’d the common Treasurie: Whereof he being the simple vsager … Did alien at his pleasure.

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  2.  Ch. Hist. A member of that section of nonjurors which observed ‘the usages’ in celebrating Holy Communion. See USAGE sb. 2 b.

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1788.  J. Skinner, Eccl. Hist., II. 623. Bishop Jeremy Collier, the laborious Church-historian,… appeared keenly at the head of the Usagers, as we shall now call them.

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1845.  Lathbury, Nonjurors, 291. Mr. Peck went to Scotland in 1718, on behalf of … the Usagers, as they were designated.

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1877.  A. J. Ross, Mem. A. Ewing, xiii. 179. ‘Usagers’ was the designation of a certain party in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

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