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use 1. Christianity a distinctive form of liturgical or ritual observance, esp one that is traditional in a Church or group of Churches 2. the enjoyment of property, land, etc., by occupation or by deriving revenue or other benefit from it 3. Law the beneficial enjoyment of property the legal title to which is held by another person as trustee 4. Law an archaic word for trust 5. Philosophy logic linguistics the occurrence of an expression in such a context that it performs its own linguistic function rather than being itself referred to. In "Fido" refers to Fido, the name Fido is used only on the second occurrence, first being mentioned
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| 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. 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. 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. |
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