Usage /(?)/

Us·age

Usage

n.
  1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
    My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty.
  2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs.]
    A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage.
  3. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.
    It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne.
  4. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
  5. Experience. [Obs.]
    In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage.