(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
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Let later age that noble vse enuie,
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1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13:
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How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!
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c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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For the next yeere 1527. the negotiations of a Councell were buried in silence; according to the vse of humane affaires, that in the time of warre, prouision for lawes hath no place.
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1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent […][1], London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 96, page 43: