dispend

English

Etymology

From Old French despendre ( > French dépendre), from Latin dispendere.

Verb

dispend (third-person singular simple present dispends, present participle dispending, simple past and past participle dispended or dispent)

  1. (obsolete) To spend or expend.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
      Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.
  2. (obsolete) To waste or squander.
  3. (obsolete) To distribute or dispense.
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