Abuse, abuser

1. In NT abuse is used twice (as tr. of KaTaxpdofiai) when the meaning is not a . but ' use to the full ' regardless of con- sequences (see Thayer, N.T. Lex.)-. 1 Co 7^' ' Those that use the world as not abusing it' (RV m. ' using it to the full ') ; 9" ' that I a. not my power in the gospel ' (RV ' so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel '). 2. In OT a. is found thrice (as tr. of S^i() with a person as object. In 1 S 31 and 1 Ch 10 the meaning is insult or dishonour, as in Milton, Sam. Ag. i. 36 — ' I, dark In light, exposed To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong.' But in Jg 19" it is the old sense of defile or ra\-ish : •'They knew her, and abused her all the night.' Cf. Fordyce, Serm. to Young Women (1767): 'He that abuses you, dishonours his mother.' Hence in 1 Co 6' ipafvoKolTiji, 'one that lies with a male,' is tr* ' abusers of themselves with man- kind' (RV 'men'); and RV gives the same tr. at 1 Ti v. J. Hastings.