LUCRE (

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• LAT

Lat. lucrum, gain; the Indo-

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• EUROPEAN

European

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root is seen in Gr. anoTavew, to enjoy, and in Ger. Lohn,

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• WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages)  , a term now only used in the disparaging sense of unworthy profit, or money that is the object of greed, especially in the expression " filthy lucre " (I Tim. iii . 3) . In the adjective " lucrative," profitable, there is, however, no sense of disparagement . In Scots law the term " lucrative succession " (lucrativa acquisilio) is used of the taking by an heir, during the lifetime of his ancestor, of a free grant of any part of the heritable property .