USE definition of USE in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Now what are generally called instruments are the efficients of something else, but possessions are what we simply use: thus with a shuttle we make something else for our use; but we only use a coat, or a bed: since then making and using differ from each other in species, and they both require their instruments, it is necessary that these should be different from each other.

A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context

For he argued thus: "that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now, if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be said to understand him; and I am so far from receiving information, that he leaves me worse than in ignorance; for I am led to believe a thing black, when it is white, and short, when it is long.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general use among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in another country.

The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context

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