Abuse tooUpdated: January 1st, 2014
Created: 27/12/13Is it: abnormal use or abominable use
abuse (n.)
(Earlier in Middle English was abusion "wicked act or practice, shameful thing, violation of decency" (early 14c.), "an insult" (mid-14c.).)
abuse (v.)
early 15c., "to misuse, misapply," from Middle French abuser, from Vulgar Latin *abusare, from Latin abusus "an abusing, using up," past participle of abuti "use up," also "misuse," from ab- "away" (see ab-) + uti "use" (see use). Of sexual situations from early 15c., but originally incest, homosexuality, prostitution, etc.; meaning "to misuse sexually, ravish" is from 1550s. Specifically of drugs, from 1968. Related: Abused; abusing.
ab-
a formal element occurring in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “away from”: abdicate; abolition.
Also, a-, abs-.
Origin:
< Latin ab (preposition and prefix) from, away, cognate with Greek apó, Sanskrit ápa, German ab, English of1 , off
None of the above seem to fill much of my understanding. One thing it is,is a type of use. Three types of abuse that are frequently noted are ecological, human and animal.
Recognition of animal abuse and more so environmental abuse lag chronological that of human abuse, yet the ecological version is currently more news worthy as it affects large areas of the planet and millions if not billions or all of mankind. That the acknowledged destruction covers other animals is of little consequence when we are destroying the air we breath and water we drink, so let's not dwell on the abuse as environmental and consider human abuse, the one we recognise in our youth.
Page 2: Personal abuse and self abuse
Page 3: Not down to my hands.
Page 4 The measure of abuse
Page 5: The daily dish
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