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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

faeneratio

The act of fenerating; interest.

[Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

The act of lending on use; or the interest or gain of that which is lent.

feneration ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) Lending money at interest; usury.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:
  what vices therein it figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fœcundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnatural venery and degenerous effemination.